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Before Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)--a nationwide organization of relatives of drunk driving accident victims--began protesting the legal loopholes that permit drunk driving, the maximum sentence for vehicular homicide was an unconscionable two and a half years...
...NOTEBOOK: A rule change that took effect this season will give Mabrey extra room to juggle he lineup. Lasy year, teams were allowed only four substitutions per game, while this year the maximum is four per half. Also, players removed from the lineup may re-enter the game under the new rule "We have a top 16, not a top 11." Mabrey said, explaining that the liberalized substitution rules help teams with Harvard's depth
...theorist faces perfunctory Senate confirmation hearings this month before he takes over as head of the President's Council of Economic Advisors Feldstein, who joins a large contingent of Harvard-affiliated advisors in the Administration, plans to return to his post in the Economics Department within two years--the maximum allowed for those who wish to retain tenure...
Prisons are extraordinarily expensive to build and operate. At a recently opened medium-security prison in Nevada, the price comes to $37,000 a cell, and a new, state-of-the-art maximum-security complex has cost Minnesotans $78,300 a cell. It takes about $15,000 to feed and guard an inmate for a year. National averages, though, can obscure almost freakish disparities between states. Inmates in Texas, at one extreme, build their prisons and grow 70% of their food, and so each prisoner costs the state only $3,577 a year. (Despite the free labor, the Texas legislature...
...following photographs offer views from the inside of seven maximum-security prisons. With the exception of Leavenworth, all are state institutions. Most of these places are famous in American folklore and in grim modern history. Their names evoke images of riots in the yards, of searchlights and sirens, of tin cups banged in unison on the tables of gothic mess halls. The normal reality of prison life is, of course, calmer, but no less extraordinary. These are societies made up largely of people who have robbed, attacked and murdered other people, after all, and of those who oversee them...