Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ruined building. Against all this, Jones must simply ask for mercy. TIME's Patrick Cole reports that the defense will call family members, teachers and military officials as character witnesses. The defense will use the testimony to argue that McVeigh's sentence should be reduced to life in prison because his he anger over the FBI siege at Waco overwhelmed reason and led him to act. That's a tough sell for 12 jurors who just spent three days weeping over the 168 people McVeigh killed...
...Steven T. Driscoll, who struck Sarah T. Craig '99 and three other Harvard students on May 22 while driving drunk, fatally injuring Craig, pleads guilty to second-degree manslaughter in the Litchfield, Conn., Superior Court. Driscoll is sentenced to ten years in prison...
...ideas that usually fall outside of the traditional Harvard curriculum. Intellectual independence can be developed by studying authors such as Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said or Frantz Fanon, who present a strikingly nontraditional perspective on America. Resistance can also be cultivated by reading personal narratives such as the prison letters of George Jackson or the autobiography of Malcolm X, or by listening to musicians such as the Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy, or Rage Against the Machine...
...member of the Movimiento de Accion Revolucionario, a group allegedly responsible for a series of bank robberies. Later allegations link him to the Comando Armando del Peuble, a Marxist urban guerilla group. Authorities do not level a specific charge. Under Mexican law, Hyland may be held in prison for as long as a year before charges are brought...
...Critics cite the cases of Rear Admiral Ralph Tindal, who in 1995 was fined, demoted and confined to quarters for 30 days after an affair with a petty officer, and Lieut. Lisa Kelly, who, after liaisons with two enlisted men, had to plea-bargain to avoid a 19-year prison sentence...