Word: convict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...characters occupy the play's more complex moral center: the warden's new secretary (Sherri Parker Lee), who can't reveal the brutality she sees for fear of losing a job she desperately needs, and a convict called Canary Jim (Finbar Lynch), who has ingratiated himself with the warden by ratting on other inmates. Jim is the most recognizable Williams character, a stunted romantic who scoffs at Keats (when he starts writing, Jim vows, it won't be about nightingales) yet proves himself an idealist in a pinch...
...returned from another stint in Europe in time for the 1988 presidential campaign, during which he covered Gary Hart. It was a campaign Dionne loathed because of the "side-issues" of Hartis alleged affair and then Vice President George Bush's use of escaped convict Willie Horton in campaign ads against then Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis...
...chairman, Bernard Schwartz, was the largest individual donor to the D.N.C. in 1996, responsible for more than $600,000 in soft-money donations. Clinton was warned in a Feb. 18 decision memo that Justice believed that if the Loral investigation ever went to trial, "a jury likely would not convict" the company if it received another presidential waiver: how serious could the breach be if the White House approved yet another technology transfer? By signing the waiver, Clinton would be handing his donor's company what amounted to a get-out-of-jail-free card. Was that an argument...
Starr lacks adequate proof to convict Clinton, but thinks if he forces a trial on Webb Hubbell, the evidence will be found...
Javert lacks adequate proof to convict Valjean but declares, "If I force a trial, the evidence will be found...