Word: penalizes
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Lawson ran into trouble in San Diego, where, as an "avid pedestrian," he was stopped repeatedly for vagrancy on his midnight walks, prosecuted twice and convicted once under a provision of the state's penal code that required him to produce "credible and reliable" identification for any police officer who had reason to be suspicious. Lawson saw the matter simply: he was black, his looks were not conventional, and he was treading white sidewalks. His suit called the law unconstitutionally vague and said it violated the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures" and the Fifth Amendment...
Birders have a rough rule of thumb for distinguishing between normal and obsessed watchers: the obsessives dream of going to Attu, a bleak Aleutian island 100 miles from Soviet waters and about 1,500 miles from Anchorage. Attu vaguely resembles a penal colony, but it is paradise to birders pining for a flyby of the Siberian rubythroat or other Asian rarities. "We have people who go without any hope of seeing new birds," says Larry Balch, the ABA's president and head of Attour, a service that brings about 65 birders to the island each spring for three weeks. "There...
...country's dropping the charges "does not have any effect on Cornell's action in the case," said Thomas J. McCormick, the the university's judicial administrator. The university's penal investigation, still in progress, is completely independent of the district attorney's office, he said...
...them, however, have found an antidote for the weekly squeeze: writing books. "I enjoy the long haul of a book," says TIME Art Critic Robert Hughes, author of the best-selling The Fatal Shore (Knopf), a 688-page history of his native Australia's years as a British penal colony. "Books give you a greater sense of proprietorship," says Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, whose ninth work, City of Nets (Harper & Row), details the Hollywood of the 1940s. "They are something that you can call your...
...Harvard offers not a single course in the history of the former penal colony. True, there are no courses in the history of Alcatraz or of Riker's Island--although I wouldn't put it past the folks over in Robinson Hall. But then again, neither of these prison is a country unto itself, much less a continent...