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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life sentences for gang rapists. Furthermore, FBI officials from the U.S. are training investigators and prosecutors who will be working in 20 courts devoted to trying sex crimes. These are scheduled to open in April 2000. Meanwhile, Smith refuses to give in to depression. The rapist, she says, "cannot imprison my mind. I have the power." She maintains that "God sent me this challenge. I have to turn this evil into good, and that is why I am speaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: An Epidemic of Rapes | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Nevertheless, Flynn said Christmas is on thedecline because of the growing number ofimmigrants. Whereas in the past, acceptance andassimilation served to imprison minorities, Flynnsaid today minorities tend to be assertive aboutwhat makes them unique...

Author: By Susie Y. Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Author Speaks Out Against Christmas | 12/9/1998 | See Source »

...need for hate crimes legislation. Hate crime is a ridiculously broad-based and anti-populist construction. The mere fact that this brutal crime is top news means that it is a rarity. Further, society takes "hate crimes," or, more appropriately, "crimes," quite seriously. Many states execute convicted killers and imprison batterers for years. That's serious enough. Legislating the content of criminal motive confuses elite sentiment with proper jurisprudence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Hate Crime' Too Broad | 10/14/1998 | See Source »

...Mafia fighter was gunned down in 1982, a badly shaken government asked Arlacchi to devise a plan to confiscate the organization's assets. After the Mob fought back with bombs that killed Italy's top two prosecutors, Arlacchi helped create a program to arrest hundreds of top Mafiosi and imprison them on a remote island off the coast. They failed in an attempt to kill him with a bomb planted in a tollbooth on the autostrada. These days when Arlacchi cruises in the Mediterranean on his 40-ft. sailboat, the Italian navy often sends a cutter as an escort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pino Arlacchi: Man With A Grand Plan | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...discerning atruer truth as defined by her freely determinedindividual standards. At first, this rejection ofgenerally shared values seems an affront to thereader. Harlan's rejection of convention quicklybecomes understandable, though, as the narrativemakes clear that the common definitions of trueand untrue, right and wrong have only ever beenused to imprison her, conventions that define heras wrong and prevent her from constructing anidentity of her own so that she might be moreeasily be made to serve. For Harlan, theestablished definitions of truth and realitythreaten to deprive her of her humanity ascompletely as her Grandmother's humanity wasobliterated by the fake turtle...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Of Turtles and Women: Jones' `The Healing' Presents a Jolting Tale | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

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