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Suitable names: The man arrested for attempting to strangle another to death in Livingston, Mont., in August: 35-year-old Vincent Murders. And the bar that was closed down in August in a Latino neighborhood of Houston because it was widely believed to be an open drug and prostitution market: the Blo- N-Go cantina.
Chinese judges play hardball: After trials in two separate cases in September (in the Chinese province of Henan and the city of Zhuhau), four men were found guilty of defrauding government banks and promptly executed. (According to figures released by China's Supreme Court in September, more than 4,200 people convicted of fraud in the past five years have received either the death penalty or life in prison or another ''heavy penalty.'') And a week after that, in Shenzhen, China, a couple were fined the equivalent of $94,000 and ejected from their home for violating the country's one-child rule.
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by Chuck Shepherd
