Word: copse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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No matter what the courts eventually decide about the police shooting in New York City of Amadou Diallo, the mild-mannered African immigrant who was laid to rest in his native Guinea last week, many African Americans will agree with Johnnie Cochran that Diallo's death was yet another summary...
The underlying causes of the carnage--drugs, poor schooling, high unemployment and the breakdown of the family--are no secret. But there's another factor that gets less attention: the conduct of the police. The Black Panthers may be defunct, but many inner-city residents agree with them that the...
An example: Liebman, conversing with the crowd about Valentine's Day in the Comedy Connection last weekend, asked if there were any high-school sweethearts in the audience. A few people applauded. She smiled and tucked a lock of hair behind her ear. "I had a high-school sweetheart too...
It was not until the bust the next morning that campus opinion turned against the administration, when then-president Nathan M. Pusey '28 showed that his own judgement was even worse than that of the student activists by sending in Cambridge cops at the break of dawn to remove protesters...
Just as he did before the shareholders, Heston rapped to the courtroom audience yesterday: "I got my 12-gauge sawed-off/I got my headlights turned off/I'm about to bust some shots off/I'm about to dust some cops off."