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...years for growing marijuana in his basement. (That's 70 years for possession alone.) Which suggests that the best strategy for legalizing marijuana might be to criminalize tobacco--and then just wait for the sentences for possession of smokable substances to drop, say, from 93 years in prison to 10 minutes of community service...
Mike Tyson, who may have earned $140 million since he got out of prison two years ago, spent his 31st birthday begging. Two days after he sampled Evander Holyfield's ear, threw away their championship return bout and maybe also the rest of his career, Tyson was standing before a microphone pleading not to be barred from boxing. "I only ask that I not be penalized for life for this mistake," he said. He added that he had sought professional help "to find out why I did what...
...matter what Nevada decides, Tyson's career is in deep trouble. For the first two rounds of the return bout with Holyfield, Tyson was plainly and simply outboxed. And it wasn't the first time. Before he went to prison in 1992, and especially after his 1990 loss to Buster Douglas, the decline of his skills was the talk of the boxing world. What had made Tyson invincible was sheer power. When he couldn't cancel opponents within the first four rounds, he was out of ideas. When Tyson was in his mid-20s, a consensus was growing that...
Then I saw the movie Face/Off. Some of it takes place in an awesomely severe prison whose very existence is secret. It occurred to me that the squeegee guys could be in such a prison. Maybe part of their sentence is to clean windshields over and over with a clean cloth and then decline the quarter offered them by the guard who sits behind the wheel...
...HAGUE, Netherlands: The U.N. war crimes court sentenced Dusan Tadic, a Bosnian Serb war criminal convicted of torturing and killing his neighbors, to 20 years in prison today. The sentence is the first imposed by the war crimes court after a full trial since World War II. In delivering the court's decision, Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald said Tadic beat his victims "intentionally and with sadistic brutality," using among other things, knives and iron bars as torture weapons. Goran Neskovic, the deputy justice minister in the Bosnian Serb government, objected that the court demonstrated an anti-Serb bias and that...