Word: courting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Further, while we all love the food court atmosphere of Loker Commons-all it lacks is an Orange Julius-it doesn't quite cut it as spot for students to congregate and relax. We need a lounge with TV's, pool tables, foosball, perhaps even a few video game machines...
...with its dusty small towns and cotton fields, is more Dixie than Lone Star. And the South hasn't been a place where blacks always found justice in the courtroom. In towns like Jasper, not long ago, blacks--even black lawyers--were routinely called by their first name in court, often excluded as jurors, their testimony discounted again and again. Black life was so cheap that whites almost never got the death penalty for killing blacks. After Byrd's murder, King gloated to an accomplice that "we have made history." He may just be right. If his death penalty...
...this time the white person lost badly. The jury took only 2 1/2 hours to return the toughest verdict possible, capital murder. Jurors then listened to two days of penalty-phase testimony, which included a tearful plea for mercy from Ronald King. He arrived in court in a wheelchair, with an oxygen tube, needed because of his emphysema. Although some in the courtroom were visibly moved by this frail father's appeal, the jury unanimously voted for the death penalty. A critical factor, a juror said later, was that jail officials had recently found an 8-in. homemade knife...
...Every time he steps onto the court, it'll be like an audition," said one of his handlers last week after Rodman--who will star as a sort of black James Bond in a movie scheduled for release this summer--signed on to rescue the struggling Lakers...
...Supreme Court okays deporting aliens for their political views...