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...cells. Until he turned his life around 18 months ago in a drug-rehabilitation program, Lorenzo Woodley, 35, spent most of his time getting into -- and out of -- jail. Since age 19, Woodley has been arrested 14 times, all on felonies ranging from burglary to selling cocaine. Yet the longest stretch he ever spent locked up was six months in Miami's Dade County Jail. He has yet to see the inside of a prison. "I was a very manipulative person," he says with a smile. "You tell a judge you got a drug problem. Judges get soft. They know...
...THREE STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT!" FEW EXPRESSIONS OF ANTICRIME muscularity sound so satisfying, which is why, after embracing the idea in last week's State of the Union address, Bill Clinton was rewarded with his longest standing ovation (22 seconds). Here, the President said, is a solution that's both "tough and smart...
...crossword puzzles, but doing all four simultaneously, while worrying an unlit cigar. Clinton fights his schedulers for free time every weekend, but then gets jumpy by midday Sunday and is often working in some fashion by Sunday night. Last August, as he was preparing to leave Washington for his longest vacation in four years, he suddenly got cold feet. Consultant Paul Begala started throwing fastballs. "Mr. President, if you don't go on vacation, the American people are going to think you're weird." Replied Clinton: "I am weird...
...decision was reaffirmed last week in another letter to the states following my discussion with Clinton, the President still "did not sign off on it," says a White House aide. "It's been Tension City here with the Whitewater thing. The people who have known the President longest made a decision not to involve him. They didn't want to hear him go crazy again. God knows what might happen later. He still might decide to roll the damn thing back. It depends on how he judges the effects on health reform, which is the whole ball game...
...versions of the magazine, which are beamed by satellite each week to our 10 printing plants around the world. "It was like being born at the turn of the century and seeing the airplane and the motor car come of age," says Gene, who retires this month after the longest stint at TIME of any current employee. "We were in the Dark Ages in the printing industry...