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...Friday Shane Stant, 22, surrendered to authorities in Phoenix, Arizona. Rumored to be the man who actually struck Kerrigan with a retractable black aluminum police baton, Stant checked into a suburban Detroit motel on Jan. 4 and left two days later. The Boston Globe reported that Stant told a source that "Harding was in on it way back." Indeed, she allegedly staged a death threat against herself in November as part of the plan...
...crime bill survive, by 1998 almost all federal prisoners and approximately half of state inmates could receive intensive treatment during their incarceration. "But then when they're out, there's nothing planned in the way of significant funds to continue their treatment," says Mitchell Rosenthal of New York's Phoenix House, "and without ample follow-through outside, much of the work inside will be wasted...
...lunar convergence of high-profile sex-and-crime stories. Whatever the reason, the tabloid shows have been in high gear lately. Charges of child molestation against Michael Jackson, along with his self-proclaimed addiction problem, have sent reporters scurrying across Europe in search of the missing superstar. When River Phoenix died, Hard Copy was the first to tell the world (through an unnamed hospital employee) that the death was probably the result of a drug overdose. John Bobbitt, owner of perhaps the most famous sex organ in America, told his story to American Journal, the newest syndicated magazine show. Inside...
These shows sometimes draw the line. Hard Copy was offered pictures of River Phoenix in his casket but turned them down. Among the other offers Hard Copy has passed on: $50,000 for an interview with Charles Manson...
Mapping such widening diversity is a goal of Harvard University's Pluralism Project, run by religion professor Diana Eck. Students have located, among other things, seven Buddhist temples in Salt Lake City, two Sikh gurdwaras in Phoenix, Arizona, a Taoist temple in Denver, a Jain center in Blairstown, New Jersey, and five Oklahoma City mosques. The project estimates that nationwide there are 1,139 houses of worship for Muslims, 1,515 for Buddhists and 412 for Hindus...