Word: chins
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...Killed Vincent Chin?,” created by Renee E. Tajima ’80 and Christine Choy, follows the story of Chin’s killing and his mother’s five-year quest for justice. Chin was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat two days before his wedding at a strip club by Ronald Ebens and his stepson Michael Nitz in what was widely believed to be a racially motivated killing...
During the case, prosecutors argued the beating was motivated by Ebens’ and Nitz’s belief that Chin was Japanese. Prosecutors said the men resented the Japanese because they believed imported Japanese cars were causing layoffs in the American automobile manufacturing industry. Detroit in 1982 was experiencing severe layoffs in the business...
...documentary featured both supporters of Chin and supporters of Ebens and Nitz...
...have been one history had taught us already. Benito Mussolini seemed like a worthy member of the first Axis of Evil, until the country got a close look at him in the newsreels, comically soaking up the ovation of his people with his fists on his hips and his chin thrust out and that odd little party hat perched on his head. It was only then that we started to ask, Is this guy kidding or what? Nikita Kruschev was similarly supposed to scare the daylights out of us, and he did for a while. Then he took...
...This is not the first time the club has been smeared. In 1996, jockey Stanley Chin was arrested for bribing other riders to throw a race at Hong Kong's Sha Tin track. Chin, who was paid by a businessman from mainland China to rig the order of finish so punters could cash in on a long-shot combination bet, was sentenced to three years in prison. No charges have been filed as yet in Operation Green. The Jockey Club had no official comment, but chief executive Larry Wong acknowledges the investigation "is an emotional setback...