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...nation's crime. The first wholesale attack on the problem began only three years ago, when 24 cities, with federal funds and a good idea, both provided by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, began establishing career-criminal prosecution units. The aim: first identify multiple offenders, then shepherd their cases diligently through the courts until conviction. In 30 months, the nationwide program has put away over 5,000 hard-core criminals for terms averaging more than 14 years each...
...voyeurs' view through the narrow entrance is blocked by the "matman," a craggy fellow who stands with arms folded like Mr. Clean. Is his job to police the orgy? Matman looks incredulous. "We never have any trouble here. These are good people. I am more of a shepherd looking after my flock." The shepherd's main role is to see that customers join and leave .the orgy in pairs. Once inside, partners do not have to stay together, but if a man leaves to go to the bathroom, he has two minutes to return, or his girlfriend will...
...movie is an adaptation of a remarkable autobiography by Gavino Ledda, a poor Sardinian shepherd's son who grew up to become an accomplished linguist. Ledda, now in his mid-30s, spent his formative years in almost total isolation and ignorance. Yanked out of school at age six by his tyrannical father, he lived alone in the fields and tended his family's flock until he turned 20. Only when he escaped to the Italian army did he discover the pleasures of literacy, industrialized civilization and social intercourse. In Padre Padrone (English title: My Father, My Master...
...second blitzkrieg capped off what was to be a five-goal middle period for the Crimson. Harvard had been graceful though unsuccessful on power play opportunities all afternoon, so the icemen waited for an early slashing call to Ken Shepherd to run out before Dunderdale's first goal at 3:35 tied the game...
...Bruce Shepherd a blow dryer...