Word: record
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...Cavalier driving erratically in North Philadelphia last Wednesday afternoon. When officers ran the license plate, the car came up stolen--carjacked more than a week earlier. The chase was on. Behind the wheel of the stolen car was Thomas Jones, a 30-year-old African-American man with a record of assault, burglary and theft convictions. Two patrol cars wove behind Jones, backing off temporarily when he veered onto a sidewalk crowded with mourners from a funeral procession. A few minutes later, Jones crashed into another car, injuring two people. Then he took off on foot, hopped a fence...
Another option is to demonize Jones. His record is riddled with cowardly charges--stealing a bike from a 12-year-old, snatching purses from women. But should the punishment be a beating and five bullet wounds? "What I saw was excessive for what was happening at the moment," says Leslie Seymore, a retired Philadelphia cop and president of the local A.C.L.U. chapter...
...fact, the most zeros ever. The record award, in favor of a class of some 500,000 Floridians made sick by smoking, took punitive damages to a bold new level. And it quickly set off a heated debate over the future of Big Tobacco. Antismoking forces bluntly predicted that the ruling could eventually cause the tobacco industry to go up in smoke. But the cigarette companies, backed by Wall Street, called the award a $145 billion joke, a judicial travesty that would be snuffed out on appeal...
...life back into the sport--first, because a lot of people doubted women could actually do it well. Two, part of it is that odd fascination some people have in watching athletes risk injury to win." Dragila, 29, is doing something right: she holds the world record of 15 ft. 1 3/4 in. and is the favorite for gold...
Stay away from Clinton-esque scandal, but exploit his record. The last eight years haven't been all Lewinsky, you know. There's a legacy of Democratic success to build...