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...second standard answer is that we simple must punish people who do wrong. Yet are we still so barbaric a nation to demand "an eye for an eye?" And if so, is it either just or useful to lock several human beings up in a small cage knowing that they very likely will be subject to physical, or even sexual, abuse in our overcrowded prisons? What constitutes cruet and unusual punishment...
...unidentified person stole a silver ten-speed Motobeeane touring bike from in front of the Indoor Track and Tennis building between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. this past Tuesday. Although the bike was locked with a Kryptonite lock, the owner had not secured it to anything. Police estimated the value of the bike at $700. There are no suspects in the case...
Police yesterday advised bike owners to buy and use bike locks. "When you're paying seven or eight hundred dollars for a bike, it doesn't hurt to invest $25 in a lock," said Don C. Nagel, a police official who statistically analyses crimes reported to the department. Nagel said that if people simply took the time to lock up their bikes, bike theft would not be such a problem...
...show- biz fun with the 6-ft. 8-in., 300-lb. Hulkster. Billy Crystal got away with it on Saturday Night Live, but Richard Belzer, the pencil-armed host of cable TV's Hot Properties, was not so lucky. Four days before WrestleMania, Hogan was demonstrating a front chin-lock on Belzer, who went limp and fell unconscious to the floor. When he rose, a pool of blood had formed under his head; the comic required eight stitches. John Stossel, a reporter for the ABC newsmagazine 20/20, got a rounder basting when he told David ("Dr. D") Schultz, "You know...
Exactly what happened at Kimpo was still being debated last week. While some of the Americans tried to lock arms with Kim in order to stay close to him, the security guards grabbed him, pushed him into an elevator and took him home. Three U.S. embassy officials who were at the airport for the arrival were kept away from the party. As Kim was being hustled out, a scuffle broke out involving the security men, the visiting Americans and some of Kim's South Korean supporters...