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There had been questions about the boys' culpability from the beginning. It was hard to imagine the pair dragging Ryan's body from the point where she was said to have been knocked off her bike with rocks across the street to where it was eventually found. Said Hampton at the time of the arrest: "There are too many adults that are nosy. They would have seen her dragged across that street...
...called TIME before the charges were dropped to track down a potential witness mentioned in the magazine. He admitted that he believed the police may have accused at least one of the suspects wrongly. The older boy, he said, "got scared and rode away" when Ryan fell from her bike...
...left the Oval Office with my liking and admiration for him fortified. So I was shocked when my son returned from a 22-month bike trip around the world and told me that the ordinary people he met all over the globe reacted to his saying he was an American with snide jokes or questions about his President's sex life. It will be very hard for the President to ask the American people to look beyond mere material comfort to harder challenges when he used the resources of his office, that same Oval Office where I was impressed...
...into this climate that Ryan pedaled her shiny blue Roadmaster bike on the afternoon of July 27. According to detectives' court testimony, Ryan joined E. to ride bikes around Paul Robeson High School and instead wound up in an alley where R. was waiting. He began throwing rocks, striking her in the back of the head, knocking her off her bike, apparently leaving her unconscious. Detective Alan Nathaniel testified that the seven-year-old confessed to moving her bicycle to a nearby wooded area and dragging Ryan there as well...
...chopped "outlaw" bike of the '60s represents, among other things, the desire to return to the raw purity of the early, "primitive" machine. On the other hand, motorcycle design in the '80s and '90s--especially in Japan--tended to enclose the machinery in baroque, forward-raked shells, bodywork that "floats" above the wheels and is loaded with sexual suggestion. Hence the argot for them: crotch rockets. What began as a proletarian vehicle (cheap transport for folks who couldn't afford a car) has turned into an expensive, deliberate body metaphor. The car may be your wife/husband, but the bike...