Word: ohio
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Richard Celeste has worked to improve the lot of battered women for much of his public career -- even turning his former home into a shelter for them. Last week, in a dramatic final act before relinquishing the Ohio governorship, he granted clemency to 25 abused women convicted of killing or assaulting their mates. The move, the first such mass commutation in the nation, was hailed by women's rights groups as a major victory in the fight to treat violence-prone battered women as victims, not criminals. But many prosecutors charged that the action would encourage more abused women...
...March state supreme court decision and the passage of a new law that -- like laws of most other states -- recognizes the "battered woman syndrome" as a legal defense. The Governor reviewed the cases of 105 women who had not been allowed to use that defense before the new Ohio rules went into effect. He freed 21 who had already spent two years behind bars and said four others could leave after completing two years. He ordered all of them to perform 200 hours of community service...
...could argue that, regardless of their efficiency checking books, the door guards are necessary to restrict entry to Harvard affiliates with proper identification. Theoretically, that's true. But here's the kicker. I entered each of the aforementioned libraries by flashing my Ohio driver's license...
...scoured France for cuttings to replant at Monticello, his Virginia estate. (None took root, alas.) And Count Agoston Haraszthy, the patriarch of California vintners, started his first U.S. vineyard at what is now the Wollersheim winery in Prairie du Sac, Wis., in 1847. During the 19th century, wines from Ohio and Missouri won gold medals in European competitions, but thousands of vine-bearing acres in these and other states were plowed under during Prohibition...
Final Standings 1. HARVARD 911 2. North Carolina State 669 3. Pittsburgh 547 4. Miami (Ohio) 429 5. Bowling Green 342 6. Maryland 254 7. St. Bonaventure 244 Harvard Placings...