Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Frederic Mailliez, a French physician who came upon the accident scene by chance, says he found Diana unconscious but "moaning and gesturing in every direction." There was another sound in the tunnel that night: the whirr and click of paparazzi cameras, like little guillotines. Mailliez says that when he arrived...
The Phoenix murders have turned a light onto a dark corner of the criminal-justice system. Bounty hunters are largely independent contractors hired by the nation's estimated $4 billion bail-bond industry to track down criminal defendants who jump bail. Lately, they have taken to calling themselves "bail-enforcement...
...searching a private home after the occupant produced an ID showing he was not the man wanted. Texas requires bounty hunters to obtain arrest warrants and be accompanied by peace officers, security officers or licensed private investigators. Curbs have not come easily. Says Gene Newman, president of the Professional Bail Agents of the U.S.: "Whenever we try to pass laws, we hit a lot of resistance from Rambo wannabes who call their legislators...
It may be civil lawsuits that produce the most dramatic reform. Last year a federal jury in New York awarded Mason $1.2 million for her abduction to Alabama, a judgment that, though later reduced by the judge, sent a chill through the bounty-hunting community. Another family, terrorized in a...
But Linda L. Barnes, visiting lecturer on the study of religions and medical anthropology, will tackle questions central to the medical profession in Religion 1021: "Religion, Medicine and the Healer's Art."