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...plead guilty only to desertion and aiding the enemy (for the time he spent teaching English). In exchange, his penalty would be a maximum 30 days' confinement, a demotion to private, forfeiture of all pay and benefits and a dishonorable discharge. Military-law experts assume Jenkins won this relatively lenient treatment in exchange for providing intelligence about North Korean spy programs. Neither Jenkins nor the U.S. government will comment on any such discussions...
...Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (Simon & Schuster; 386 pages)--it is best to sit far, far away. His blurting of arcana has got so bad, his wife started fining him $1 for every irrelevant fact he crowbarred into conversation. "She was lenient," he told TIME. "I got away with $150. She could have gotten...
...despite a punishment more lenient than expected, Wang said the incident could change his college application plans...
...judge must have been listening. Cedarbaum gave her the most lenient sentence possible under federal guidelines--five months in a minimum-security federal prison and five months of house arrest. Was Stewart surprised? "Not at all," she said defiantly as she left the courtroom. But Wall Street was impressed, sending the stock surging 37%, closing at $11.81, on news of the light sentence...
...parties coincided with the tail end of a brief era when nearly all of the nation’s undergraduates were of drinking age and the College administration, according to students, regarded social activities with a fairly lenient...