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...Governor Booth Gardner and state lawmakers to pass what became a uniquely tough law. It requires that convicted sex offenders register with police wherever they move; that authorities must let the community know about the felon in their midst; and, most controversial, that the state be allowed to lock up repeat offenders after they have served their sentences if they are thought to still pose a threat. Such pre-emptive imprisonment, which civil libertarians say is grossly unconstitutional, is being challenged in court...
...difficulty of controlling leaks from within the Clinton camp is that some of them are apparently coming from the putative nominees themselves. The logic behind this gambit is to lock in one's selection with the press before the President-elect has a chance to reconsider. Clinton advisers contrast the alacrity with which Bill Bradley took his name out of the vice-presidential race last summer with the New Jersey Senator's palpable eagerness to be considered for Secretary of State. Another proven reputation-enhancement tactic is to float your own name for a job for which...
Executives have been hurrying to use their stock options because shares have surged in recent weeks and holders want to lock in their profits. "Corporations are trying to persuade executives that it's in their best interest to exercise their options and avoid the tax hit next year," says William Wilson, a senior tax planner for the accounting firm Crowe Chizek in South Bend, Indiana. The rush started early at some companies. Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca and two fellow officers pocketed $5.5 million by cashing in stock options in October, when a Clinton victory seemed almost certain. Iacocca, who plans...
...lock [the doors]. Since you can't lock them from the inside, we had to put up warning tape," Fuller said. "The repairs commenced shortly after noon and were finished around...
VLADIMIR ZAKHAROV Church Elder In the Church of St. Sergei a seven-year-old boy tilts his head as a priest snips off a lock of his hair and dips it in a cistern of holy water. The boy and six others have just been baptized. Vladimir Zakharov proudly watches the service. Though not a priest, Zakharov, 46, is an elder at St. Sergei's who oversees the Russian Orthodox Church's ! charity mission. Baptisms are now fairly common, but the new parishioners do not come solely for spiritual sustenance. Many are poor, and they look to St. Sergei...