Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brazenly disregarded a Constitution they are supposed to uphold. But the Reagan Administration, and most politicians, professionals and businessmen agree that drugs are hurting the country. They have watched as an increasing drug abuse has forced students out of school, hurt their parents' job productivity, and driven addicts to crime. Drugs have destroyed thousands of lives and engendered a culture of lawlessness--especially among the poor trapped in the cities...
Bell invokes the metaphor of disease throughout And We Are Not Saved to describe negative aspects of Black behavior. Thus the crime rate among Blacks can be cured like an illness. Again and again, cures for Black pathologies are discovered, then destroyed. But Bell is doing more than laying bare the hypocrisy of whites who blame the victims. By harping on the analogy of disease as an absurd explanation for Black behavior, he makes the unstated point that it is whites who are stricken with a disease: racism. Ultimately, it is they who must be cured. And, Bell seems...
...courageous act of his political career, he finally went public with his complaints in an article in Harper's titled "The Illinois Legislature: A Study in Corruption." Along with a legislative colleague, Anthony Scariano, now an Illinois judge, Simon followed up by testifying to no avail before an Illinois crime commission. "As a result, we were pariahs," Scariano recalls. Simon developed a bleeding ulcer. The only good thing to come out of it, Jeanne Simon says, is that on his doctor's orders the abstemious Simon began drinking a glass of wine with dinner...
...makings of a consummate thriller. Two ivy-leaguers--William Brandon (Tom Tremoulet) and Charles Granillo (Adam Selipsky)--have murdered a fellow undergrad, who just happens to be their professor's son, and stuffed the body in a trunk. Brandon and Granillo have no real motives for the crime. They do it for the sheer thrill of murder, coupled with their own arrogance and plenty of neo-Nietszchean philosphizing...
...especially fitting that at the height of the Administration's campaign to package the latest of its failed Supreme Court nominees as a tough crime fighter, the Attorney General's wife, Ursula Meese, wrote to a federal judge urging special treatment for a family friend facing criminal charges. While Meese did not write or necessarily authorize his wife's letter, his failure to condemn it and immediately apologize entangles him in a web of sleaze. Once again, we're left to wonder whether Meese even realizes that something unethical has taken place...