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...with his dad, shot and killed an unarmed fleeing man. Richard Bachellor died as his wife and three-year-old son looked on. In 1994 a grandmother of 13 was picked up--kidnapped, in effect--by bounty hunters as she sat on the steps of her Manhattan home. Jrae Mason was 13 cm taller and weighed considerably less than the fugitive, and looked nothing like her photograph. Bounty hunters handcuffed her, and thus began a five-day escapade that ended with Mason's being turned over to the sheriff in Tuscaloosa, Ala. When she turned out to be the wrong...
...civil lawsuits that produce the most dramatic reform. Last year a federal jury in New York awarded Mason $1.2 million for her abduction to Alabama, a judgment that, though later reduced by the judge, sent a chill through the bounty-hunting community. Another family, terrorized in a Southern California Motel 6, won a $1.15 million verdict. Despite last week's deaths, damage awards like these are inexorably exerting a civilizing effect on a profession with a reputation for cutting legal corners. "The days of kicking doors and slapping whores are over," says Don Floyd, owner of Northeast Bail Bonds...
...reason [for the changes] is to ensure that MPA students are acquiring the range of skills that the Kennedy school considers central to careers in public affairs or public service," said Merilee S. Grindle, faculty chair of the MPA Programs and Mason professor of International Development...
...September Fri. 12 BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 3 p.m. Sun. 14 at New Hampshire, 1 p.m. Wed. 17 HARTFORD, 3:30 p.m. Fri. 19 COLUMBIA, 3 p.m. Sun. 21 COLORADO, 1 p.m. Tue. 23 at Boston College, 3:30 p.m. Sat. 27 at Yale, 12 noon October Fri. 3 at George Mason, 4 p.m. Sun. 5 vs. Maryland (at George Mason), 11 a.m. Wed. 8 at Connecticut, 4 p.m. Sun. 12 at Cornell, 1 p.m. Fri. 17 PENNSYLVANIA, 3 p.m. Sun. 19 CENTRAL CONNECTICUT, 2 p.m. Sat. 25 PRINCETON, 2:30 p.m. November Sun. 2 at Dartmouth, 12 noon...
...reason [for the changes] is to ensure that MPA students are acquiring the range of skills that the Kennedy school considers central to careers in public affairs or public service," said Merilee S. Grindle, faculty chair of the MPA Programs and Mason professor of International Development...