Word: barres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people listening that night was Arba Earl Barr, 33, an inmate at the Avon Park Correctional Institution, the same prison in which McDougall was incarcerated. Barr was serving a 114-year sentence on assault and robbery charges. On Oct. 1, say police, Barr, McDougall and 200 other inmates were in the prison yard after dinner, when Barr took the steel post used in a game of horseshoes and beat McDougall to death with it. Prison officials say they had put McDougall under protective custody on the night of the Russ & Bo broadcast because inmates who had been listening told them...
...Richard M. Burnes, Andrew A. Green and Amita M. Shukla contributed to the reporting of this story.CrimsonMatthew P. MillerRock the Vote volunteer JOHN BARR registers a Harvard student...
...keep the government running. The Hawaiian courts will not rule until the end of the year, and it will be 1997 before same-sex couples wed in the islands could wash up on these shores, expecting shoes and rice, not to mention Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Yet Georgia Representative Bob Barr, who led the fight that resulted in passage of the bill in the House, 342 to 67, spoke with great urgency: "The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundation of our society, the family unit...
...plan, Congress will leave Washington knowing that marriage is safe. Listening to debate about the bill, one began to wonder how America's foundation had survived so long without legal protection from gay couples indulging in adjustable-rate mortgages and life insurance. That is an interesting question for Congressman Barr, as is this: Which of his own marriages is he trying to protect: the first, the second or the third...
Comedy Central also broadcast its hit nightly round-table show, Politically Incorrect, live from San Diego. As always, the show featured panels of egregiously mismatched guests--one group last week included Oliver North, Georgia Congressman Bob Barr and Vicki Lawrence. Unlike the honchos at MTV, who had rapper Chuck D conduct an unamusing interview with Strom Thurmond during that network's convention coverage, the producers of Politically Incorrect understand that incongruous pairings are not necessarily entertaining in and of themselves. Host Bill Maher, TV's nimblest conversationalist, asked his Tuesday panel what party Jesus would join if were he alive...