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...turns into an insect; in A Hunger Artist, a professional faster starves himself to death "because I couldn't find the food I liked. If I had found it, believe me, I should have made no fuss and stuffed myself like you or anyone else." In In the Penal Colony, needles write the excruciating message BE JUST on the back of a condemned man. In Investigations of a Dog, the canine narrator cannot admit that his species is subject to the whim and will of a larger power...
...long walks while on business in the San Diego area, often in the dead of night. As he strolled the deserted streets, no one ever bothered him except the police. Between March 1975 and January 1977, Lawson was stopped 15 times for vagrancy under a provision of the California penal code that requires an individual to provide "credible and reliable" identification to a police officer who has reason to be suspicious. Prosecuted twice and convicted once, Lawson brought suit six years ago seeking damages from police officials and trying to get the vagrancy law struck down. The law was unconstitutionally...
...Penal proceedings are under way against Pinior in connection with his embezzlement of 80 million zlotys, "PAP said. It did not say if he would be charged with political crimes as well...
...Science Center can appreciate the repeated cameo appearances of a janitor who says, while pointing at the ceiling and nodding his head in a gesture that comprehends everything and nothing, "And when you finish, de lights?" Although technically legalese, lines like "I'm going to play with my model penal code" are accessible...
...Civil Liberties Union-and, more ineffably, as an extension of two centuries of penal reform (see box). But most important, during the decade and a half after the war, the U.S. homicide rate stayed fairly constant and unalarming, never rising above 6.4 per 100,000 (in 1946). Year after year, there were roughly 8,000 killings (a third of the 1981 total), seemingly as predictable and steady as deaths from accidental drownings (5,000 a year) or falls (19,000). Americans felt unthreatened. They could afford the emotional luxury of indulging their instincts for reason. During 1964 and 1965, three...