Poor Mojo's Newswire

There's no point in trying, conservatives have insisted for years, pillorying liberals who want to waste taxpayer dollars on programs that don't work. But RSVP does work, and not by dint of some magical formula impossible to replicate. Through a rigorous yet disarmingly simple regimen of education and counseling sessions that exposes inmates to victims' rights groups, religious leaders and other prisoners who have changed, Schwartz shows how hardened criminals – many of whom are victims of physical violence and sexual abuse themselves – can muster the courage to take responsibility for their actions, to feel remorse, to empathize.

To make room for the bridge and the profitable duty-free shops Moroun wants at its base, century-old side streets and the houses on them were obliterated. The bait store was located on Lafayette and 23rd street, but that intersection doesn’t exist anymore. The shop now has an address only in name, not in geography.

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Moroun initially condemned land in his way and took the properties on it, claiming he was acting as an instrument of a federal project, but the courts have so far ruled he can’t do that anymore, even if he compensates the properties’ owners. So it appears he has to live with Aytes’ rickety old bait shop in the middle of his new plaza.

Dewhurst responds, "She was cut up. She was decapitated. Body parts were cut off."

In one hazy photo, Dewhurst believes he see a woman's naked, decapitated body from the stump of her neck to her mid torso. He says he is able to see that her right breast has been removed and a knife is being held above her left breast.

"The film proves in my mind Jack Tarrance was a serial killer," says Dewhurst.

The "good manners" curriculum - the country's first - is being introduced in the northern province of Chiang Rai.

The senior monk told the BBC he was particularly concerned by effeminate activities among novices such as the wearing of make-up and tight robes.