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Although the Crimson could not afford spare time to rid themselves of any post-car ride stiffness, the unexpected six-hour journey didn't faze the Crimson squad, as it immediately dismantled...
...surely as objects--for ogling, for censure, for pity. Lee Meriwether, Miss America 1955, recalls her agony in a one piece: "I was dying a thousand deaths. I've never had people stare at me like that, and with binoculars! I'll be thrilled if they can get rid of it." Says this year's Miss Montana, Amanda Granrude: "We shouldn't have women in a veiled strip show." Even Leonard Horn, who runs the Miss America Organization, says, "I personally cannot rationalize it." Eager to italicize the scholarship program that gives more than $24 million a year to contestants...
Maricopa County is not alone. The hottest development in criminal justice is a fast-spreading impulse to eliminate anything that might make it easier to endure a sentence behind bars. Figuring that it makes no sense to use taxpayer dollars to help criminals pump up, several states have got rid of prison body-building equipment. Others have begun charging inmates for medications and infirmary visits that used to be free. One of the most popular restrictions is a ban on popular in-cell possessions like the one now in effect in Mississippi, where convicts are forbidden to have their...
That won't stop politicians from experimenting to make prison life as awful as the constitution will allow. In Tennessee, where overcrowding led to riots and a federal-court takeover of the state prison system 10-years ago, the legislature recently got rid of ice-cream machines and cable TV. Lawmakers there have also approved a proposal to amend the state constitution, which currently requires Tennessee to have "safe and comfortable prisons.'' They want to drop the word "comfortable...
...Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan said the tapes made him "sick." District Attorney Gil Garcetti said they "embarrassed" him, and Police Chief Willie Williams said he was going to comb the LAPD for Fuhrman-like cops and -- somehow -- get rid of them. "The politicians are saying what they have to say, but blacks here don't believe a word of it," reports TIME's Sylvestor Monroe from Los Angeles. "No one in the black community is shocked or horrified at the tapes. They know nothing has changed in Los Angeles since Rodney King. Fuhrman just confirms...