Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full-fledged social structure. Only a select few actually get seats. Yet, like every other noble class, they insist on taking more than they need; instead of sitting next to someone, they leave a seat in between and decadently use the scarce resource for their jackets. Their stiff knees and stern glares warn off any pretenders. (In seminars, there is the further distinction between those seated at the table and those behind...
...zine's primary focus on raunchy sex, however, undermines this melodramatic tone. Here, too, the writing is uneven. The first piece is entitled "Stiff" and relates how a college student is overcome with attraction for a cadaver in the bio lab and indulges in necrophilia. Knowing the area above the corpse's groin would be "messy with incisions," she appreciates his legs as "muscular and hard as a rock, although rigor mortis was probably more responsible than exercise." Much to her delight, "the penis [was] still intact." While topics such as necrophilia, bestiality, and sadomasochism may sound intriguing, the poorly...
...countless more repeat offenders to elude incarceration or do snooze time in a county jail. According to Marc Mauer of the Washington-based Sentencing Project, for each crime committed, an offender stands a 1-in-20 chance of serving time. "People ignore the gun laws because there are no stiff penalties," says Antoine McClarn, 22, who sits in the Cook County Jail on charges of armed robbery. "Guys are charged and then released, and it's like a cycle to them, almost fun. People used to be scared to come here, but now it's a game or a joke...
...bank robberies that slashed such incidents in Southern California by 37% in a year. "The bottom line is that if you catch somebody after their first bank robbery or after their tenth, you are going to have an impact," he says. Director Peters of Illinois also sees benefit in stiff time. "For many of the inmates, prison is the first time they have ever had order in their lives," he says. "The average inmate leaves prison either the same or a little better than when he came...
...violent felon could be sent to prison for life without the possibility of parole if he committed a third, federal crime following two previous state convictions. As currently written, three strikes could work like this: a mugger shoves a woman while snatching her purse; strike one. The same criminal stiff-arms a store clerk while swiping a coat; strike two. Twenty years later (there are no intervals in either proposal), the same person punches a federal official, or assaults someone in a national park; strike three. The U.S. Sentencing Commission estimates that at most, only 690 federal prisoners a year...