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...We’ve gotten beyond that stuff,” he says...
Rayfield Newton was in the fast lane of recidivism. In June 2001 he left a Florida state prison after serving a year and a half for crack-cocaine possession. But by last summer he was back, sentenced to more than three years for selling the stuff and assaulting a police officer. Then late last year, sitting in his cell at a penitentiary in Florida's Panhandle, Newton heard that the Lawtey Correctional Institution, south of Jacksonville, had just been converted into the nation's first "faith based" prison. Fearing that his crimes were alienating his 12-year-old daughter, Newton...
...Iraq's President-in-waiting but have watched their influence wane as Iraq has descended into chaos fell over themselves last week trying to cut loose their former friend. One of Chalabi's Pentagon boosters, Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith, insisted to TIME that "there's all this stuff about his advising us on policy and his being highly influential, and it is wildly overstated. The stuff that's been reported about us being very close is just wrong." A top Administration source says Vice President Dick Cheney, who lobbied to continue to give financial assistance to the I.N.C...
...STUFF IT AWAY Thanks to a healthy collectibles market, if Smarty Jones is the victor, your winning ticket may be worth more if you never cash it in. Here's why: a $2 bet on Smarty Jones probably won't pay off more than $1.50. But if you put the stub in your sock drawer, experts say it's probable you'll be able to sell it as a collector's item for hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in 10 or so years. Think that sounds crazy? Last week's winning eBay bid for an uncashed $2 Smarty Jones...
...peccadilloes - like the occasional grope when he takes them for a ride on his motorbike - the boys cherish Hector. He has given them the vocation, the job and the joy of "breaking bread with the dead"; to be infused by the culture handed down to them. "Mr. Hector's stuff's not meant for the exam, sir," one of the boys tells Irwin. "It's to make us more rounded human beings." Put that way, it sounds wet. But Bennett wants us to consider what we learn and why we learn it. He believes that millennia of poetry, plays, history...