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Spit and acquit n.-- Nickname for an Orange County, California, program in which people charged with minor crimes are released if they provide a DNA sample...
USAGE: "Some judges and defense attorneys worry that the program, dubbed 'spit and acquit' by its critics, could ... undermine the privacy rights of defendants." --AP, April...
...biggest challenge is making them emotionally whole again," says Philippe Houdard, founder of the Miami-based Developing Minds Foundation, "to get them from being killing machines to normal human beings." The rehabilitation program, started in 2003 and supported by Developing Minds and Colombia's Family Welfare Institute, offers housing, recreation, counseling, schooling and vocational training to former child soldiers. The 31 boys here are among the nearly 3,000 minors who have given up guerrilla life under a 2003 government amnesty program. The guerrilla groups, formed out of the leftist peasant militias of the 1960s, continue to fight Colombia...
...launched its bike-sharing program on Earth Day yesterday, and hopes to attract students to sign up for the program at the event on Saturday, where bikes will be available for testing...
Upper-level FAS administrators have deferred a push from professors seeking to create a great books program within General Education, citing a lack of resources due to the financial crisis...