Word: thompson
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...sunrise. "Attitudes adjusted here," says an ad for the Ascent Program. Sea Hawk Academy promises "the wake-up call your teenager needs." Many offer to arrange the kind of "escort service" David van Blarigan found at his bedside. The schools and camps are often isolated, either in rural America (Thompson Falls, Mont.) or in faraway locales (Western Samoa). They number as many as 2,000, estimates Alexia Parks, author of a new online report on the subject, An American Gulag, and they come in many varieties: religious, military-style, and some focused on special issues, like drug abuse...
...Magazine Editor John P. Thompson '89 produced a short, unauthorized edition called "The What" with personal pictures, text and letters. The bizarre occurrence resulted in surprise, confusion and controversy at 14 Plympton St. The magazine ended the '80s looking for new leadership...
...were into Hunter Thompson," he says. "We did stuff in that spirit...
Simpson made very few enemies in politics but many adversaries, the former Wyoming Governor and IOP Fellow Mike Sullivan has said. And Thompson said Simpson has never been afraid to engage those who disagree with...
...executed six juvenile offenders this decade--more than any other country. A 1988 Supreme Court ruling (Thompson v. Oklahoma) is widely interpreted as prohibiting the execution of offenders who committed crimes when under the age of 16, but individual states can set higher minimum ages. Of the 38 states that allow the death penalty, 13 set the age at 18, four set it at age 17, and 21 have a minimum of 16 years of age or no minimum...