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Aside from all questions of relative talent, the Oakland A's-a team notorious for lack of togetherness-were playing the series last week in a state somewhere between turmoil and anarchy. Two of their top relief pitchers, Rollie Fingers and John ("Blue Moon") Odom, were recovering from an...
In Miami Criminal Court, a 20-year-old white Floridian had been found guilty of taking potshots at the home of an interracial couple, and faced 20 years behind bars for shooting into an occupied dwelling and carrying a concealed weapon. But Judge Alfonso Sepe had other ideas. No one...
If the sentence was not exactly orthodox, it was nonetheless in line with a growing search for alternatives to jail. Judge Sepe, 47, has become Miami's foremost proponent of what might be called creative punishment. Rather than hand down penalties that fit the crime, Sepe tries to set...
As a rule, Sepe considers alternatives to jail only for those convicted of a nonviolent crime "where there is not a trauma left on the victim or the community." His aim is generally to give the chance for "a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment" that prison rarely offers. But in...
At Harvard, more than at non-Ivy schools, you must be an athlete and a scholar at the same time, corny as that may sound. This means that there is no time for practicing all day. If someone is put on academic probation for flunking a course, he becomes ineligible...