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Rumschpringes -- the "wild oats" interludes giving teenagers latitude to party before they submit to the religious strictures of the adult community -- have become the source of a mortal threat to the culture of Pennsylvania's Amish community. Abner King Stoltzfus, 23, and Abner Stoltzfus, 24 (not related) Thursday became the first Amish people ever to be arraigned on narcotics charges, after they allegedly collaborated with members of the Pagans biker gang to deal cocaine and methamphetamine at barn dances for rumschpringing Amish kids. TIME correpondent Nadya Labi notes that while the teenage time out from the conservative Amish culture...
...other members of next year's HSBSE board are Chaundra C. King '99, vice-president; Joseph R. Winters '99, treasurer ; Jason E. Williams '01, corresponding secretary; Andrew L. Abner '00, organizational liaison; and Richard O. Phillips '01, institutional liaison...
...season, which has included a brisk Li'l Abner and a triumphant version of the Gershwins' Strike Up the Band that deserves to go straight to Broadway, concludes this week with Williams and Charles S. Dutton in St. Louis Woman...
Cochran is currently on the team of lawyers representing Haitian immigrant Abner Louima in a law suit against the New York City Police Department...
...Colbert incident was neither as dramatic nor as horrendous as the recent brutalization of Abner Louima at the hands of New York City police. Cases like that grab national headlines, but they are aberrations. More systemic and infinitely harder to root out is a more common form of corruption: too many cops in too many places who routinely flout the laws they are sworn to uphold, cops who come to view the law itself as a maze of misguided rules that hinder their ability to "get the job done...