Word: probationers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sections: Yes. A friend of mine revealed to me, in confidence, her secret strategy for luring the most eligible bachelors in her sections into asking her for dates. Apparently she deliberately sits opposite the Don Juan of the moment and stares mercilessly at his forehead for the entire hour. She...
Judges have traditionally enjoyed such leeway in meting out jail terms that one prisoner could serve many times as long as another for a similar crime. Concerned about unfair -- and often overly lenient -- sentences, Congress in 1984 created the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which issued a manual that greatly restricts judges...
"This is one of the most important decisions handed down by the court in this decade," said Federal Appeals Judge William Wilkins Jr. of South Carolina, the commission's chairman. The result, he said, will be "more uniform, fair and truthful sentences." The impact will reach far beyond the several...
Other athletes have had to sit out seasons or parts of seasons because of academic problems. Like other students, athletes occasionally run afoul of the Administrative Board. Students on academic probation cannot participate in extra-curricular activities--including sports--without special permission.
In December 1987 Mitnick was convicted of stealing software via telephone from a Santa Cruz, Calif., company. He got 36 months' probation for that crime, but the record of his offense has somehow vanished from police computers. Federal authorities suspect, although they have not proved, that he also planted a...