Word: cleared
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Because the case of Berkowitz is particularly egregious. Here is a clear case where the students of this College stand to lose one of their most valued instructors as the result of a deeply flawed process, about which they know little, and over which they have absolutely no control. This is not the first such instance. However, in this case, the other victim, the instructor himself, has bravely decided to stand up to the corrupt system. He has little chance of victory, and he has exposed himself to great ridicule, but he has decided to fight for what is right...
...doctors had told him to skip St. Louis; and by the final day of John Paul's visit it was clear why. At a prayer service in the city's beautiful basilica he coughed--not continuously, but so deeply that his body jumped forward slightly. His speech, clear enough at a youth rally the night before to elicit roars of laughter, was more slurred. A short prayer he should have spoken was assumed by an assistant...
...then he stops himself, and his eyes become clear and matter-of-fact, and he says, "You know what? I can't lie. I did some things, and I deserve to be here." His father's abuse is part of what he became, he says. "But not a major part." He put himself in prison, he will likely die there, and his mother, who amazes him, is all he has. "Her love transcends whatever obstacle I've thrown in front...
Music mixes with memory. As we think back over the 20th century, every decade has a melody, a rhythm, a sound track. The years and the sounds bleed together as we scan through them in our recollections, a car radio searching for a clear station. The century starts off blue: Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads. Then the jazz age: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and, later on, Benny Goodman and "Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." Midcentury, things start to rock with Chuck Berry, "Wop-bop-a-loo-bop a-lop bam boom...
...event that occurred during this tumultuous time. Now squeeze all this into a four-hour mini-series and try to tell a credible story. Ludicrous? Yet NBC pretty well manages the feat. Enacted by a solid cast and enhanced by a smartly used greatest-hits soundtrack, The '60s is clear-eyed, compassionate and surprisingly affecting. What it lacks in depth it makes up for in breadth...