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Though a wide range of manufacturers, banks and retail chains now hold ransom insurance on their key personnel, the companies tightly guard the identities of those insured. Most insurance firms, for their part, commit holders of ransom policies to absolute secrecy. Often the insurers require that knowledge of the policy be limited to the top three or four officers of a company and reserve the right to cancel if the company discloses the existence of the insurance. The reason is obvious: knowledge that an insurer stood ready to pay, say, $4 million to ransom a key executive would make that...
...your stomach after a ground ball has somehow eluded your glove that you were sure was down as far as it could be. You also know the humiliation of having to confront your teammates' accusing glares and the derision of the fans, some of whom kindly suggest you commit suicide as the best solution to your team's fielding problem...
...They] unlawfully, willfully and knowingly did combine, conspire, confederate and agree together and with each other, to commit offenses against the United States ... [They] would corruptly influence, obstruct and impede ... the due administration of justice ... and by deceit, craft, trickery and dishonest means, defraud the United States...
...handed up this week in the plumbers' case. Said one Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, "Impeachment is most likely to come in the area of obstruction of justice ? the tape erasures, the possibility that the President offered money to people to keep quiet or to commit perjury, the possibility that he authorized bribes in exchange for campaign contributions...
...convicted child molester in Connecticut's state prison at Somers reclines on a treatment table with an electrode wired to his upper thigh. Whenever pictures of naked children are flashed on a screen, he gets stinging shocks in his groin. At the Iowa Security Medical Facility, inmates who commit infractions like lying or swearing are given a shot of apomorphine, which brings on violent vomiting for 15 minutes or more. Intractable convicts transferred to the maximum-security Michigan Intensive Program Center near Marquette are put into solitary confinement for most of the time and can only "earn" better living...