Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scott Harshbarger said one was the $1.5 million robbery of the Depositors Trust Co. of Medford in 1980. The two leaders named in the indictment, former Metropolitan Police Capt. Gerald W. Clemente and former Medford Police Lt. Thomas K. Doherty, are serving sentences for their involvement in that crime...
...Sanborn, recalls Rubin, had "told me what he wanted to do, what he wanted to say, and what he wanted me to do and say." Shapiro refused Rubin's request, ordering him to proceed with the case. The judge cited the lapse of time since the commission of the crime, the inconvenience to witnesses, Sanborn's rejection of three previous court-appointed defenders and the possibility that "any new counsel will be confronted with the same conflict...
...into the mainstream after a group of evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians seized control of the Polk County Republican convention. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad penciled in child- porn laws as one of his top legislative priorities for 1986. The legislature responded by passing a bill that makes it a crime to purchase child porn. The trickle-down theory of antiporn was in evidence when a planned fund-raising softball game south of Des Moines, featuring a group of Playboy Bunnies and Rabbits, was canceled after phone calls to the local athletic booster club protested that the game would be promoting pornography...
...currently standard fare heterosexual pornography" -- bears "some causal relationship to the level of sexual violence." The Meese panel's findings are diametrically opposed to those of the 1970 report of the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, which asserted that pornography was not a significant cause of sexual crime and recommended better sex education in schools. The 1970 analysis, the new report claims, is now "starkly obsolete." Since 1970, according to the Meese panel, pornography that is far more violent and explicit has flooded the market, and this has been accompanied by a commensurate increase in the number...
...intently to a naked neoclassicism. His supposed apotheosis, the Palais Stoclet (1905-11), is handsome in elevation but ponderously classical in plan and, in all, fussy and overrich. Loos used lavish materials too, but with a redeeming simplicity. He was a hard-liner about tarting up facades: "Ornament equals crime," he wrote. And though Loos' polemical celebration of yeoman-like unoriginality was a bit disingenuous, his own architecture -- as in the controversial Goldman & Salatsch building -- was indeed relaxed, restrained, simple-seeming...