Word: cops
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...flag to Leonard Jeffries, from Ice T to Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 and Colin L. Powell, the Class of 1993 has had to grapple with diversity and freedom of expression. Some wish such disagreements never occurred: that Mansfield never opened his mouth, that Ice T never brought his "cop-killer" campaign to Harvard Law School and that the campus was a sea of peace and tranquility...
...Rapper Ice T specks at Harvard Law School about his controversial album Cop Killer." He said, "I thought everybody hated the police." Later in the week, Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn writes a chiding letter to Harvard President Nell L. Rudenstine, Flynn wrote that by inviting ice T to speak, Harvard University has done a great disservice to police officers and law abiding citizens everywhere...
...Klaber, suspicions about the Sirhan verdict are based on fact, not fancy, and others who have followed the case and its aftermath concur. Retired L.A.P.D. sergeant Paul Schraga, the first cop on the scene after the shooting, is convinced that right-wing zealots in his department's elite intelligence unit were involved in the assassination. "Conspiracy?" he says. "You bet your bottom dollar there was a conspiracy." Several celebrities, including Norman Mailer and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., have petitioned a Los Angeles County grand jury to review the L.A.P.D.'s investigation of the younger Kennedy's killing. Alas, considering...
...Driving through upstate New York to lecture at a New England college a few years ago, West was pulled over by a cop who figured him for a drug runner because of his flashy clothes, jewelry and sporty Camaro. When West protested that he was in fact a professor of religion, the officer scoffed, "Yeah, and I'm the flying nun. Let's go, nigger," and hauled him off to jail. It took a phone call to the college to secure West's release...
...sides seem to be heading toward a compromise on that issue -- was fueled mainly by pique at being passed over by Clinton for Secretary of State. But that misses the essence of Nunn, who sees himself not merely as a dispenser of funds or a legislative traffic cop but as a benign steward of the military...