Word: carterisms
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...Rubin Carter, know to many simply as “The Hurricane,” delivered a stirring speech to a crowd of 150 yesterday at Harvard Law School in which he lambasted the criminal justice systems in the U.S., Canada, and Jamaica for what he claimed was a high incidence of wrongful convictions and a system that is based more often on prejudice and “tunnel vision” than on evidence...
...Carter recounted the details of his conviction for triple murder in 1966 when he was at the height of his middleweight boxing career. He spoke of how he was saved from the electric chair only because of the quality of his legal representation, and how he still spent nearly twenty years in prison, ten of which were in the pitch dark of solitary confinement...
...world's most exclusive club has only 43 members, and all of them are dead except Gerald Ford, 92; Jimmy Carter, 81; George H.W. Bush, 81; and Bill Clinton, 59. For years, the club rarely met at all, and then only at openings of presidential libraries or VIP funerals. But as Presidents have lived longer after leaving office, most have tried to stay busy, and some have felt underused by their successors. Harvard business and government professor Roger Porter, who has worked as an aide to three Commanders in Chief, explains, "Being President is like drinking from a fire hydrant...
...world, with an endowment of $29 billion. Each year it spends almost the same amount as the World Health Organization (WHO). In public health in particular, to which the foundation devotes 60% of its funds, "it's the most important organization in the world," says former President Jimmy Carter. The Carter Center, which has been working to eradicate guinea worm disease since 1986, received a pledge of $25 million from the foundation this year. "We've been intimately acquainted with their method of operation, the thorough investigation they do before they make a decision, their willingness to take a chance...
...especially those pertaining to the FBI’s access to library records. Under current law, the FBI could demand that libraries release the record of what books an individual has checked out, as well as patron internet and e-mail usage information, according to FBI spokesman William D. Carter. But that information must pertain to a specific individual involved in an ongoing terrorism or intelligence investigation, Carter said.Director of the Harvard University Library Sid Verba ’53 said that, to his knowledge, the University has received no such requests for information. But Verba expressed concern about...