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Playing into the hands of billionaire pro-legalization forces like George Soros, the Staff wrongly gives the impression that a quarter of a million harmless pot smokers were arrested and locked up in jail. In fact, that number represents many different contexts: people who plead down from trafficking to possession; people with other more serious crimes which they have been arrested for, in addition to marijuana use; or those who are cited for smoking pot in a public place and are fined about $100, as with a parking ticket. As the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency reported, only 7,000 people...
Since the co-defendants continued to plead not guilty, the criminal proceedings against them will continue—and could extend beyond the June graduation date for the class of 2002 unless they accept a plea bargain...
...Croatia and Bulgaria do not have much to cheer about in their daily lives. Their countries are poverty-stricken. When a Croatian athlete can rise to the top of the world and compete at a level with Americans who have more money and often more opportunity, I will plead guilty for rooting for “the bad guys...
Antonio C. Lasaga, an award-winning geochemist who taught at Yale for almost 15 years, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday after he plead no contest to charges of sexual assault, employing a minor in an obscene performance and risk of injury to a minor in New Haven Superior Court last month...
...week his new budget "substantially" boosted spending on drones, but TIME's review of the budget shows a 13% increase--from $971 million to $1.1 billion--for Predators, Global Hawks and other unmanned planes. (Spending for fighter jets jumps 37%.) Yet every week U.S. commanders go to Rumsfeld and plead for the drones to help gather intelligence in their part of the world. "There simply are not enough to go around," Rumsfeld said. "We're building them as rapidly as possible." But the Predator's manufacturer, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, tells TIME it is ready to crank out more than...