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Annie Le’s body was found in an area that housed utility cables for the four-story lab building at 10 Amistad St., located 10 blocks from Yale’s main campus...
Some ex-presidents proved to be more effective public servants after the White House than before. John Quincy Adams served nine consecutive terms as a congressman and argued the Amistad case (made famous by the Steven Spielberg film) before the Supreme Court. William H. Taft became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court following his unimpressive term. He loved the job so much that he was said to quip, "I don't remember that I was ever president...
...great blot from national life. By his 60s, however, he had heard too many Southerners praising slavery as a good thing. When elected to Congress after losing the White House in 1828, Adams spent the remainder of his life flaying slavery, supporting the mutineers on the slave ship Amistad and the right of citizens to deluge Congress with antislavery petitions...
...Sweating the Details Steven Spielberg's Munich is about the terrorism at the 1972 Olympics and the revenge that followed [Dec. 12]. In 1997, TIME talked with the director while he worked on Amistad, the story of a Spanish ship that took abducted Africans...
...harrowing journey of Yvonne Pascal, a young pro-democracy activist who escaped torture in her homeland only to find herself fenced in on Guantánamo. “Storming the Court” is a fascinating legal drama—a sort of modern “Amistad...