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Eventually he collided with the code of criminal law. Innocently mentioning his liaisons to a policeman while reporting a burglary at his home, he abruptly found himself transformed from victim to accused criminal. In a Britain that had not yet legalized homosexual relations between consenting adults, the resulting trial cost him his reputation, his work, even his masculinity: to repress Turing's sexual urges, a judge ordered him treated with female hormones. He was subsisting on university research in 1954 when, in a bizarre echo of a favorite movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, he killed himself by eating...
...Moscow's Arbat pedestrian mall, evening strollers cluster around a young guitarist. The music has stopped, and the passersby follow a heated argument between a dowdy middle-aged woman and a policeman. Clearly on the defensive, the officer insists that he is not forbidding the street musician to play but only questioning why he is cadging coins. "Times have changed," the angry music fan counters. "The police should not be sticking their noses into matters that don't concern them." The Moscow cop walks away grumbling, "Right now, anything goes...
...Moscow also has its entrepreneurial legions: 12,000 officially registered "individual laborers" and more than 650 "cooperatives." While a policeman looks on benignly, commuters outside Kiev railway station examine the cloth shopping bags, plastic sandals and odds and ends of knitwear on display in a battered truck. Street artists on the Arbat compete for customers. Gorky Park is alive with the sound of plastic bird whistles, costing a relatively hefty 1.50 rubles...
...same session, the board also voted to place Pierce's roommate Alexander Shustorovich '88 on probation for a semester for getting into a shouting match with a policeman whom McGee sent to their room on the same night...
Both students sent letters of apology to McGeeand the policeman, but the Ad Board decided tohear both students' cases because the policemanfiled a five-page report on the incident