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...rest of the semester, the state must. Officials in Sacramento promptly devised an emergency loan package, which the judge approved, and appointed an administrator to negotiate new employee contracts. Governor Pete Wilson, meanwhile, has appealed the decree, saying it sets a dangerous precedent by using state money to bail out schools...
...Doreen Flaherty, 27, a recovering crack addict from Garden Grove, Calif., remembers spending a week in jail after being arrested for possession of cocaine. "I kept crying in jail because I wanted to see my little girl," she says. "That's all that mattered to me." After she made bail, Doreen did not return home to her daughter but sought out a drug dealer instead. When a girlfriend tracked her down at the crack house, Doreen told the dealer to say she was not there. "How could you do this to your daughter?" the girlfriend asked. "I'm sorry...
Finally, if the deadline is ignored and the moment of truth arrives, call the police and have the demonstrators arrested for trespassing. Allow their classmates and future public defenders to bail them out of jail. After appropriate consultation and investigation, suspend or expel the malefactors, or at least place them on probation...
First, four of the co-defendants jumped bail and disappeared. Then a key prosecution witness mysteriously vanished. Last week the two remaining witnesses to the crime refused to testify. Faced with the sudden flight of evidence, Rand Supreme Court Judge Michael Stegmann abruptly postponed until next month the start of South Africa's most explosive trial in recent years, to give the flustered prosecution time to repair its case...
Brady was clearly mindful of the S&L mess when he put forth his proposals. To avoid taxpayers' having to bail out failed banks, the plan would limit depositors to a total of $200,000 of federal insurance per bank. That would include $100,000 in checking and savings accounts and $100,000 in retirement accounts...