Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Illinois cases of errant prosecution bring a new element to the growing national debate about overzealous law-enforcement agents, a furor stoked by high-profile police shootings in New York and California as well as "racial profiling" by New Jersey state troopers. The question is whether law enforcement, amid its extraordinary success in pushing the crime rate down, is showing too little regard for individual rights--especially those of blacks and Hispanics, who are most often targets of alleged misconduct. "We cannot have the kind of country we want if people are afraid of those folks who are trying...
...California, Riverside remains torn by the shooting of Tyisha Miller last December. Miller, 19, a black woman, was waiting in a car with a flat tire for a cousin to bring help. When the cousin arrived, Miller seemed to be unconscious in the locked car with a gun on her lap. The cousin, fearing Miller was sick, called 911, and when the police arrived, they yelled at her to open the door and smashed a car window. Suddenly they fired 24 bullets into the car, striking Miller at least 12 times and killing her. Miller's family accuses the police...
...looked lost amid the more seasoned actors in Amistad, and no one could have brought to sensible life the woozy guru he played in Contact. It seemed as if McConaughey might lapse into ex-hunk obscurity, like those slightly too-good-looking fellows spotted behind a counter at a California video store...
...California shopkeeper Truong Van Tran's display of a poster of Viet Cong leader Ho Chi Minh may be insensitive [AMERICAN SCENE, March 8], but he is perfectly within his rights to do so. Those Asian Americans who harassed and attacked Tran should remember just how generous their American neighbors must have been in accepting and tolerating them and the customs they brought from their Asian homeland. An individual's freedom of peaceful expression, even when used to promote unpopular thoughts, must be protected. FRANK S.C. CHANG Los Angeles...
...much with transistors until you could link them together, like fibers in an Oriental rug. To everyone's astonishment, the gifted young man from Grinnell, Iowa--a minister's son--achieved that goal in a decade. His integrated circuit, or microchip, not only helped rename an orchard-filled California valley but also led to a seemingly endless harvest of silicon devices, from PCs to coffeemakers...