Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many companies try to search quietly for new homes. When Salomon Brothers decided to move its processing division, the firm conducted secret scouting missions in 72 cities before making a peep. Sure enough, when word got out in January that the company had narrowed its choices to Tampa and Columbus, Salomon was besieged with promoters. Tampa offered Super Bowl tickets; Columbus brandished seats for the Final Four. Says Salomon managing director Marc Sternfeld: "I heard from every personality in Florida and Ohio...
...500th anniversary of 1492 is approaching. Remember 1492? "In Fourteen Hundred Ninety-Two/ Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Discovery and exploration. Bolivar and Jefferson. Liberty and democracy. The last best hope...
...late 1800s (when that upstart Bell ruined every-thing) every literate person kept up some sort of correspondence. St. Catherine of Siena wrote to the pope, telling him not to be such a wimp. Gibbon wrote to the poet Pope telling him his poems didn't scan. Columbus wrote to every member of the royalty in Europe, begging for money...
Given the odds stacked against black defendants who kill whites, the results are perhaps predictable. Last February two men were convicted of murder in separate trials in Columbus. James Robert Caldwell, a white defendant, was found guilty of raping and murdering his 12-year-old daughter and repeatedly stabbing his 10-year-old son. His sentence: life imprisonment. Jerry Walker, a black, was convicted of murdering the 22-year-old son of a white Army commander at nearby Fort Benning during a convenience-store robbery. His sentence: death. Caldwell's trial lasted five weeks. Walker's lasted 12 days...
...Columbus is not alone in its skewed application of justice. A 1990 report prepared by the government's General Accounting Office found "a pattern of evidence indicating racial disparities in the charging, sentencing and imposition of the death penalty." A midterm assessment of the Bush Administration's civil rights track record issued last week by the independent Citizens Commission on Civil Rights found a similar "pattern of inequity" in death sentencing. Richard Burr of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's capital-punishment project puts it more bluntly, "Prosecutors frequently pay no attention to the families of black homicide...