Word: jails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrival recruits face a "moment of truth" during which they are told to divulge every secret in their past, such as drug use, arrests and even traffic tickets. For years, that debriefing was a bit like a police interrogation, with signs threatening $10,000 fines and jail time for liars. Those signs have been replaced by posters of naval vessels and slides exhorting the kids to embrace "honor, courage, commitment." "When they see all these nice pictures, that gives them a warmer welcome than I got," says Senior Chief Petty Officer Norman Pretlow, a recruit division commander...
...Milan, however, the home of Italian fashion, the company's image could stand a bit of polishing. In May a Milan criminal court sentenced Santo to a 14-month suspended jail term after finding him guilty of bribing police to obtain favorable tax audits for the company. (Leaders of several other couture houses either plea-bargained away tax charges or drew similar penalties.) Santo is appealing the conviction. Moreover, the company continues to be dogged by rumors of Mafia ties, assertions that the family has consistantly denied. Fashion industry rivals wonder in particular who is financing Versace's lavish boutiques...
...concerns demented terrorists who somehow insinuate themselves onto the presidential plane and take the Chief Executive and everyone else aboard hostage. Their offer is lives for a life--specifically that of a genocidal tyrant named General Radek, president of a breakaway Russian republic now being held in a Moscow jail...
...just turned 17, is home. So are his older brother, two of his friends--and a bag of marijuana. "Three strikes and you're in," says Stewart. Jail, that is. Two plainclothes policemen who accompany Stewart confiscate the bag and run background checks on the boy's friends. When Stewart visits the apartment the next night to make sure the kid is still honoring the curfew and to search the place, he finds on the wall of a closet the roster of the Argyle Street Ballers, a small gang that sells drugs. "Now we know the players," he explains...
...number arrested and the victims' memory of more attackers. "If the girl said there are 12 or 13 of them, where are the other seven?" asks Idella Hollis, 70, grandmother of the Hollis brothers. "I just don't trust them. There are too many black people down in jail for nothin...