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This year the nation's prisons will release more than 630,000 people--the largest prison exodus in history. That's four times as many as were released in 1980, before crack, before zero tolerance, before truth-in-sentencing policies and before 1.9 million people filled U.S. prisons and jails, the current record. Since 1980, the number of prisoners returning to society has steadily climbed. It's simple physics: the more people you lock up, the more you must one day let out. For 40% of those now in state prisons, that day arrives in the next 12 months...
Still, in a place like Kosovo, the euro has given the war-weary populace a larger sense of belonging. On the euro's third day, residents of the capital, Pristina, braved sub-zero temperatures to get the bills. By day's end, a small grocery on the city's main street had 4.50[Euro] in its till, though prices were still shown in German marks, the official currency since 1999. Kosovars are used to a variety of currencies: U.S. dollars, Swiss francs, Yugoslav dinars. Now there's the euro. Says shopkeeper Shukrane Shaqiri, warming her hands by a stove...
...film’s youthful leads, director Jake Kasdan—himself an up-and-coming talent with the popular film Zero Effect to his credit—cast the talented duo of Hanks (Get Over It) and Fisk (Snow Day), a pair of rising stars with superb Hollywood pedigrees. After all, Colin is the son of Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks, and Schuyler is the daughter of Academy Award-winner Sissy Spacek. Fisk has no trouble stepping into the role of Ashley, Shaun’s sweet-faced and sympathetic girlfriend, and Hanks successfully anchors the diverse cast with...
While it hasn’t quite lived up to its early billing in the national polls, look for the Big Green to be a strong team during the stretch run. With all 15 of its remaining games within the ECAC, the Dartmouth should be able to zero in and focus on working its way up the standings. It certainly has the capacity to do so, with Mike Maturo—the ECAC’s fourth leading scorer in league games behind the aforementioned Harvard trio—leading a very potent offense and Trevor Byrne heading...
...brightly lit computers. Their faces pressed on the glass, discussions thrived about what we were doing. We were the best entertainment in a long time. That night we all slept in one room, weapons between us and blankets pulled over our heads, in makeshift cocoons, against the below-zero chill...