Word: prisoners
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Even though Charles Keating spent 4 1/2 years in prison for his starring role in the $3.4 billion collapse of Lincoln Savings & Loan, the poster boy for the 1980s S&L scandals that cost taxpayers nearly $500 billion was still able to thumb his nose at prosecutors last week...
...convicted of Kinnear's stabbing. McDermott was sentenced to death, hanged and cut into quarters. Marks' case seemed less clear. She claimed to have fallen unconscious for part of the period of the killing and to have no memory of the rest. Her sentence was commuted to life in prison...
...Washington, State Department spokesman Glyn Davies said the United States would continue "turning up the flame" on Milosevic. Milosevic is sure to feel more heat after Dejan Bulatovic, arrested after he held aloft a effigy of the Serb president dressed in jailbird stripes, was beaten and tortured while in prison. The official charge? Traffic violations...
DIED. JOHN SALVI, 24, convicted of killing two people in an attack at two Boston-area abortion clinics in 1994; an apparent suicide; in his prison cell in Walpole, Massachusetts...
More important, his characters are not the usual musical-comedy creatures. They are your basic Woody Allen folks, a family of upper-middle-class Manhattan strivers--liberaloid, neurotic, mildly dysfunctional. Mom (Goldie Hawn) numbers among her causes prison reform. So, naturally, her eldest daughter (a wonderfully surprising Drew Barrymore as a coolly appraising material girl) falls for one of the recidivists (Tim Roth, in another of his beautifully calculated bounces off the wall) her mother brings home to dinner. This leaves nice Holden (Edward Norton) in the lurch and Father (Alan Alda) fuming impotently...