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This was not some isolated example. I have many nicknames here at 14 Plympton. “Photo Credit Nazi.” “Pica Nazi.” (A pica is a measurement of length, equal to approximately one-sixth of an inch.) “Grammar Nazi.” “Cutout Nazi.” Even something as obscure as “Drop Shadow Nazi.” Confused? Ask anyone who’s worked with me—they could tell you all about...
...Angeles. He found his experience on The Crimson and the What? very rewarding, if only because it taught him how to write to length and write to deadline—two skills that are surprisingly important to an attorney. He also knows the difference between a point and a pica...
...Sean Pica kills the sexually abusive father of fellow Selden high school student Cheryl Pierson after she hires...
High School Cheerleader Cheryl Pierson had often fantasized about having her father killed. Her resentment and rage came to a head one day in November 1985 when Pierson and Classmate Sean Pica, both then 16, were sitting in homeroom at Newfield High School in Selden, N.Y., discussing an article in a local paper about an abused wife who enlisted someone to murder her husband. Pierson wondered aloud who would be crazy enough to undertake such a deadly commission. Pica promptly said he would volunteer -- if the price was right. Three months later, as James Pierson, a 42-year-old electrician...
...Both Pica and Pierson pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Pica was sentenced in April to eight to 24 years in prison. But Pierson argued that years of sexual abuse had pushed her over the brink. Last week, a judge sentenced her to six months in jail and five years' probation. "This is not a place I want to be in, but nothing could compare to what I went through," she said last week at , the Suffolk County Correctional Facility. "I just couldn't see any other...