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...assistant) Rae Proctor. "We were poor. Mother raised us, six of us, when she was working as a cashier." Lawrence made his family laugh, then he made people on his street laugh. Then, realizing that he could earn a living at this, he headed off to the comedy-club circuit. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was impressed with Lawrence's "natural charm and presence" and hired him as host of Def Comedy Jam. Lawrence also landed scene-stealing minor roles in movies like Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. "To attain universal appeal, the conventional wisdom is that...
Lydon said that Boston needs West to stay here and not use the city only as a mailing address. "I hope we won't lose him to the cosmic lecture circuit," Lydon, who interviewed West about his latest book Race Matters...
...Sixth Circuit eventually found Demjanjuk to be Ivan the Terrible, the guard at the Treblinka death camp responsible for exterminating hundreds of thousands of Jews. In 1986 he was extradited to Israel, where he was sentenced to death...
Shortly after the files were released, the Sixth Circuit launched an investigation into possible prosecutorial misconduct by Justice Department attorneys, including Ryan. And, citing the new evidence, the Israeli Supreme Court overturned Demjanjuk's murder conviction...
Yesterday's decision by the Sixth Circuit reverses the findings of a 198-page report prepared earlier this year by U.S. District Judge Thomas A. Wiseman Jr., who was appointed by the Sixth Circuit to investigate...