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...since the morning of April 12, 2003, when Pring-Wilson stabbed 18-year-old Michael D. Colono outside a pizza parlor on Western Ave., the defense attorneys have played up their client’s intelligence and the respectability of his background...
Court TV’s extensive coverage today focused on whether Pring-Wilson’s Harvard background might influence the jurors’ opinions about the case...
...Sept. 6 he flew back to Japan. By his own admission, the FBI says, he didn't tell his wife of the trip, and he didn't tell Kelly. Last May, Keyser failed to report the Taiwan trip on an electronic form as part of a routine security background investigation and certified that his answers on the form had been correct. Keyser's lawyer did not return calls requesting comment...
...Hiram Leong Fong [MILESTONES, Aug. 30] had a long political career that began in 1938, when he served in the House of Representatives for the Territory of Hawaii. When Hawaii became the U.S.'s 50th state on Aug. 21, 1959, Fong won a Senate seat. TIME described his background in an Aug. 10, 1959, article...
This year’s cover, set against an intriguing hot pink background with two young co-eds in the foreground, depicts that oh-so-typical midnight Cinderella moment in the Yard. Who hasn’t been there? The electricity of the moment is palpable—so palpable, in fact, that though the students may be able to control their lust, they cannot control their letters and numbers, which embrace in the sky above them in a glowing dance of alphanumeric romance. Though the students’ distance and body language...