Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gloomy moralizing, one of the more lamentable legacies of Rod Serling's classic program. But there have been surprises. Among them was a striking episode from Director John Milius (Red Dawn), in which a man murders his mistress's husband while on a hunting trip, then relives the crime with the roles reversed. Milius bathed his key scenes in orange light and an otherworldly fog, giving the routine tale a haunting resonance...
...gathered, they contended, and should be admissible even in his auto-theft trial. But Brennan's majority opinion declared that Moulton had been led into making statements to a police agent without the presence of his lawyer. So those statements could not be used to convict him of any crime with which he was already charged, although they could serve as evidence to convict him of other crimes. In dissent, Chief Justice Warren Burger complained that the court's decision created a new "right" only for offenders who persisted in criminal activity even while under indictment for other crimes. Said...
...obvious disinterest in working class struggle, Joseph was appointed labor reporter at The Crimson. To secure his post, Joe was told he would have to abide by Crimson discipline--he couldn't wear any "Better Red than Crimson" SYL T-shirts around the big boys at "The Crime." Of course, he eagerly complied. But it took the ISO to show him how he too could be a vile anti-Soviet, anti-Communist liberal like a lot of other Crimson editors, yet still keep a veneer of "radicalism...
Overall, however, the city can proudly point to some solid accomplishments. Through a contract with the Los Angeles County sheriff, West Hollywood has beefed up police protection by about 20%, adding foot patrols, organizing neighborhood-watch groups and driving serious crime down by 18%. Meanwhile, without raising taxes, the city has amassed a budget surplus of more than $6 million: money that before cityhood was collected in West Hollywood but was spent elsewhere in Los Angeles County...
...dark angel, at the moment of death," a federal agent once said of the Mafia chieftain. As underboss of the Gambino clan, the most powerful of New York's five families, he was a member and chief enforcer of "the Commission," the 11-member council that reputedly oversees organized crime around the U.S. Occasionally disguised as a priest under the alias of Father O'Neill, a play on his first name, he traveled about the nation to impose edicts and settle disputes between rival Mafia clans. Few mobsters dared to argue with him. Dellacroce, who died in his sleep...