Word: beene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Why had the defense's expert witnesses not been allowed to testify? "You don't seem to understand," one of the Government's team told me. "We didn't decide the witnesses couldn't testify; the judge did. There was a judge in this trial! There was a jury!"
-- The Government may have been right to take this terrible RICO blunderbuss and use it to scare the living daylights out of Wall Street, because Wall Street's level of greed and immorality in the '80s had reached a cyclical peak.
Prince Edward County's whites established a private school system for their own children, and offered to help blacks do the same. The blacks insisted on integrated public schools. Black families that were lucky sent their children to relatives in other counties or states where the public schools were open...
Vanessa Venable was teaching ninth grade in the black school system in 1959 when the county shut down the public schools. The blacks knew nothing in advance. "I went to school one morning," Mrs. Venable remembers, "and the superintendent told us that Prince Edward County had gone out of the...
The rivals are already sniping at each other. "We think our format takes better advantage of the strength of comedy than just a clip channel," says Tom Freston, head of MTV Networks. "Comedy has traditionally been character driven and story driven. It takes time to work." HBO executives snicker. "Why...