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...year-old son, also a barbershopper. "How many things can you do with your boy and really enjoy?" he asks. Certainly few that are so indelibly G-rated. The society adheres to a ten-point code of ethics, and a committee is available to punish those who might spice their lyrics with a double entendre or even a Swedish joke. The panel hasn't had to meet in years. "People like to ridicule us as a bunch of squares," declares Sarasota, Fla., anesthesiologist Hank Vomacka with a wink. "But they keep coming back to listen...
...Angeles last week of kidnaping, torture and murder, the federal court verdict represented two important milestones. It was the nation's first conviction under a 1984 racketeering law that adds new penalties for violence. And it was the first conclusive success in the nation's long effort to punish those responsible for the 1985 murder in Mexico of Drug Enforcement agent Enrique Camarena and his pilot, Alfredo Zavala Avelar. The jury found Alvarez, formerly a member of the Guadalajara homicide squad, guilty of six charges, including two counts of committing violent acts to support racketeering. Jurors saw a videotape...
...mother country endowed her colonists with a splendid heritage? Did she not, at considerable cost, literally save their scalps from the French and their Iroquois allies during the Seven Years' War? The litany of disappointment went on, driven by royal self-righteousness and a scarcely concealed craving to punish the upstarts...
...purpose? This particular virus was ultimately traced to two brothers who run a computer store in, of all places, Lahore, Pakistan. The brothers later admitted that they had inserted the program into disks they sold to tourists attracted to their store by its cut-rate prices. Their motive: to "punish" computer users for buying and selling bootleg software and thus depriving merchants of potential sales...
WASHINGTON--The House of Representatives yesterday passed an election year anti-drug bill that would severely punish recreational users and murderers alike, but it could face constitutional tests if enacted into...