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The law is fast catching up with Ted Patrick, the black San Diego-based religious bounty hunter who helps parents recapture and "deprogram" young people who have joined offbeat sects. In May, Patrick was convicted in Fullerton, Calif., for unlawfully imprisoning a 19-year-old Hare Krishna adherent. Last week...
The two cellmates, perhaps remembering a practice common in San Diego before 1970, suggested a harrowing alternative. They each asked to be castrated and signed waivers releasing their lawyers, the judge and a court-appointed doctor from all liability for the operations. The surgery, said Judge Woodworth, would be "part...
The skies seem to grow less friendly when Norman Wexler is airborne. Last week the Hollywood screenwriter (Joe, Serpico) allegedly bit United Air Lines Stewardess Laura Mansuto on the arm during an argument aloft. The trouble began, say airline officials, when Wexler insulted a cardiac patient who was being outfitted...
The Yale College Council, Yale's equivalent to Harvard's Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, had voiced objections to the mandatory suspension or expulsion for student disruptors and instead recommended "a scale [of punishment] from probation to suspension" the Yale Daily News reported last Thursday.
Indeed, the make-up of undergraduates in Dudley (which includes the Harvard Co-ops and Apley Court residents) appears to be a mixture of extremes. It has more people on probation and more people graduating with high honors than any other House. It has the highest percentage of former prep...