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...consultant to the California Corrections and Rehabilitation Department, Joan Petersilia is also a professor of criminology at University of California Irvine and director of its Center on Evidence-Based Corrections, which is funded by the prisons department. An expert on prison reform, she offers her thoughts on how to solve the myriad problems in the nation's largest corrections system as it faces the threat of federal supervision...
...recipients include Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, a drop-out of Harvard College; former University President Lawrence H. Summers; former Harvard Corporation member Conrad K. Harper; Harvard history professor Daniel Aaron; British astronomer S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell; philosopher Richard M. Rorty; Celtics star center Bill Russell; gender historian Joan W. Scott; New York Review of Books founding editor Robert B. Silvers; and University of Texas mathematician Karen K. Uhlenbeck. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
...cannot believe you did not choose Richard Widmark's Tommy Udo in the 1947 movie Kiss of Death. When he laughed after pushing that wheelchair-bound lady down the stairs, he gave new meaning to the word evil. Joan Donnelly, Flanders, New Jersey...
...G.O.P. donors. That was followed by still more clarification: Romney insisted he has hunted small animals for many years, though he does not actually own a firearm. "Leave it to Mitt Romney to shoot himself in the foot with a gun he doesn't own," wrote Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi...
...Concept-Art-Heritage-Rock-Covers" move swiftly through their set. With their razor-witted reinterpretations, AC/DC's '70s classic T.N.T. becomes Nam June Paik, named after the grandfather of video art; Devo's Whip It barely misses a beat as an anthem to Abstract Expressionism, Drip It; while Joan Jett's I Love Rock 'N' Roll has even more attitude as I Shot Andy Warhol ("I'm Valerie Solanas, I'm a no hoax, baby"). But art students beware one of the final tracks. In this, the Histrionics transform Steppenwolf's Born to be Wild into a tirade against...