Word: thefts
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...unlike financial experts, she views colleges more as charitable institutions than as businesses. "It's wrong for us who have an education and who have all the privileges to teach each other how to cheat," she says. Her harsh analogy is not to income-tax advice but to outright theft. "It's easy for a lot of people to condemn youngsters who walk into stores that have been blasted open and take things that don't belong to them. Everyone calls that looting, and it's certainly illegal and not appropriate. But when people with $350,000 incomes shelter that...
Knighton does know a lot about the criminal-justice system. At 16, he had been in juvenile custody 19 times, charged with aggravated assault, auto theft, robbery, drug possession, escape and contempt of court. Knighton was sent to the Better Outlook Center, a halfway house for juvenile offenders in a Miami suburb. Staff members recall Knighton as hostile and angry at first; later he began to flourish under the supervision of caring adults. "Anthony thought it was heaven," says superintendent Jounice Morris. "It was his first glimpse of stability." Morris, who gave him the nickname "Peanut," recalls that Knighton...
...incident marked the second time this yearthat council elections have come under scrutiny.Last week, council officials disclosed theapparent theft of several ballots cast duringcampus-wide council elections...
Feudal lords ruled over western Europe, taking their share of the harvests of primitive agriculture and making the forests their private hunting grounds. Poaching was not simply theft (usually punishable by imprisonment) but a sin against the social order. Without the indulgence of the nobility, the peasants could not even acquire salt, the indispensable ingredient for preserving meat and flavoring a culinary culture that possessed few spices. Though a true money economy did not exist, salt could be bought with poorly circulated coin, which the lord hoarded in his castle and dispensed to the poor only as alms...
Outgoing Vice Chair Malcolm A. Heinicke '93, who organized this fall's elections, said the theft would not affect the validity of election tabulations, which most council officers agreed were meticulously conducted...