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...serve only to escalate the viciousness of American crime. "It animalizes people," says Criminologist Richard Korn of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. "They sit in there building fury." Says Charles, the young Bloods gang member: "This place is a pigsty. People come off the lock-downs anxious to kill." Self-serving as that comment may be, a harsh fact remains: more and more cons, both inside the prisons and reunited with fellow gang members on the outside, do just that. --By Dan Goodgame. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Sacramento
Officials were perplexed as to why she entered the enclosure. They said she had been instructed to lock one door, not go inside. "There is no reason for anyone caring for tigers to ever go onto the exhibit area," said Zoo General Curator James Doherty. "As best as I can see, she had a lapse in concentration." While Burke might be able to provide some insight into Silverman's actions, she was said to be too shaken to talk about...
...Vanity Fair. Perhaps the only place where such a story conference could occur is at Soldier of Fortune, the macho magazine for adventurers (armchair and otherwise). The Colonel is Robert K. Brown, 52, a.k.a. "Uncle Bob," the onetime Green Beret who started the magazine in 1975 and owns it lock, stock and carbine barrel. Soldier of Fortune is a direct reflection of its creator: blunt, individualistic, muscularly anti-Communist. As Brown celebrates Soldier of Fortune's tenth anniversary this month, he makes no apology for the combative style--either his or the magazine's. Since its founding as a quarterly...
...members of the staff had complained that their authority was being undermined by prisoners' complaints and a successful court action for assault brought by one of the inmates. Within minutes the entire population of the facility, including murderers, rapists and petty thieves, had escaped. City officials advised residents to lock their doors...
When Ben & Jerry's began expanding rapidly in the 1980s, the company got a frosty reception from its bigger competitors. Cohen and Greenfield charged last year that Pillsbury was trying to keep a lock on the Boston market by threatening to cut off supplies of Häagen-Dazs to distributors who also carried Ben & Jerry's. Turning adversity into a publicity ploy, Ben & Jerry's gave customers thousands of T shirts and bumper stickers that poked fun at the Pillsbury corporate symbol by asking: WHAT'S THE DOUGH BOY AFRAID OF? Without admitting any wrongdoing, Pillsbury settled the complaint...