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Perhaps the lowest common denominator in popular culture is the movie title. Producers and distributors try desperately to condense their films' essences in a maximum of four or five words, often ending up with such gems as "The Children of Paradise" and "You Only Live Twice...
Under Chapter 266, section 127 of the Massachusetts General Laws, destruction of personal property is a felony and carries a maximum of two and a half years in prison and a fine, according to Middlesex Assistant District Attorney Alex S. Moffatt, who is prosecuting the case...
...maximum rain enjoyment wear Tevas, or another waterproof pair of shoes, and shorts--jeans stay wet forever, particularly when rolled up and stuffed in a backpack. Otherwise, relax, sink your toes into the mud and start singin' in the rain...
...account at Citibank. No such transfer took place, and prosecutors are likely to argue that it gave Leeson a way of proving he was making the huge Nikkei trades on behalf of a client. "Once he is here," says Pala Krishnan, one of Singapore's leading criminal attorneys, "the maximum sentence he can receive is 14 years, if he is tried by a lower court. If he is tried by a higher court, then the sentence is life." Leeson and Barings should have got out while they were ahead...
...guards had completed their mission, they would have arrived to find a squad of 30 federal police agents preparing to enter Adriana Salinas' house and arrest Raul, 48. He put up no resistance, and by 2:30 p.m. the officers had hauled him off to a maximum-security prison outside Mexico City...