Quotes.

"If you steal again, you will go to jail. Understand that?"

--Judge ELDEN FOX to Winona Ryder, sentencing the actress to probation and community service for shoplifting. (The Associated Press, Dec. 6)

"We've tried hard to get violence out of the schools in recent years, and now we're purposefully bringing it in."

--JAMES ALAN FOX, a professor of criminal justice, criticizing one of the latest educational fads: forensic science classes, inspired by TV's CSI. (The New York Times, Dec. 3)

"Bush, apologize! Nullify the verdict!"

--Anti-American protesters in South Korea, after a U.S. military court acquitted two U.S. soldiers charged with negligent homicide in the road deaths of two Korean teenage girls. Activists demand that the soldiers be retried in a Korean court. (The Associated Press, Dec. 5)

"I don't see how he's ever going to come up with $21,000, especially if he can't drive to go to work."

--KRIS THOMAS of Findlay, Ohio, after a judge ordered her son Jerry, 17, to pay for high school staff sent home early when he sent a bomb threat. (Toledo Blade, Dec. 6)

"It was intended to cause fear and to terrorize a population."

--Supreme Court Justice CLARENCE THOMAS, arguing that a burning cross does not qualify as free speech. (The New York Times, Dec. 12)

"It's better to have a war. Better war than a drop here, a drop there. Better for them, too. What we have now is worse."

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