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...Pulitzer Prize for detailing bribery within the Arizona State Tax and Corporation Commissions. Two years later, he exposed a gigantic land fraud scheme involving Western Growth Capital Corp. Later stories resulted in the prosecution of Ned Warren Sr., a major figure in that corporation and an ex-con. In 1975, Warren escaped prosecution in a land fraud case after the chief prosecution witness was slain...
...they can see themselves through Shange's eyes, black men are going to wince. They are portrayed as brutal con men and amorous double-dealers. A segment called "Dark Phrases," featuring Janet League, telescopes a black wom an's experience, and in a cruel tale of love and blood lust called "A Nite With Beau Willie Brown," Trazana Beverley brings the audience to a culminating gasp of agony. An altogether excellent cast not only dances but delivers lines with a revivalist fervor that might have inspired Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the fiery furnace...
...nine o'clock in the evening and the senator had a cafe con leche with a roll in his favorite cafe. At that moment two men entered, took out some enormous pistols and shot at the senator. Innocent or guilty, what is certain is that the senator was eating a roll when they killed him, staining his white linen suit with spilled blood and cafe con leche...
...reminisced for the Lomaxes. Later he had little good to say about the way John Lomax set his story down. "He did not write nothing like I told him," the subject complained-although there remains a better than fair chance that these were the second thoughts of an ex-con embarrassed by his own candor. Leadbelly might have found this movie more to his liking, which is part of the problem. The screenplay puts Huddie into situations where he seems to have no choice but to kill. He emerges as a man innocent, put-upon and perennially puzzled...
Roger Levy, a legislative assistant to the sponsor of the bill, Sen. James L. Buckley (Con-R-N.Y.), said on Tuesday that it was "up for dispute" whether Harvard could legally deny students the right to view letters of recommendation...