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...Brown, the TV judge, who has no expertise in the field. The jury, some of whose members dozed during the testimony, ordered Jowers to pay the Kings $100 in damages for his supposed part in a murder plot that was never clearly spelled out. King's younger son Dexter exulted that the verdict was "the period at the end of the sentence." As far as the King family is concerned, it's their story and they're sticking to it no matter what the DOJ says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Have a Scheme | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...remake rights for Jane Fonda, then for Whoopi Goldberg (though the film wasn't made), then they asked him to direct Sister Act, First Wives Club, Runaway Bride and, he says, "anything with drag queens." But though he hopes to make a film soon in Florida, based on Pete Dexter's novel The Paperboy, Almodovar's roots are deep in the Iberian psyche. He has never filmed outside Spain. Indeed, he hadn't shot outside Madrid until he made All About My Mother, set mostly in Barcelona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Loving Pedro | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

Graduation hit the Crimson hard. Tim Hill, Mike Beam, Paul Fisher, Bill Ewing and Chris Dexter--who were the guts of the winningest four-year stretch in program history (58 wins)--were four of Harvard's top five scorers last year. The five started 80 games between them and leave the Crimson with just three regulars who saw substantial minutes...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Era Dawns for M. Hoops | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

...team also posted its fourth consecutive season at or above .500, a feat not seen at Harvard since 1928, making this year's senior class--Beam, point guard Tim Hill, captain center Paul Fisher, center Bill Ewing and forward Chris Dexter--the winningest in school history...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IT'S AWESOME, BABY! | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...indeed. The trial lasted 30 min., with the expected conviction and penalty. That afternoon, the Montgomery Improvement Association was formed. So as not to ruffle any local activists' feathers, the members elected as their president a relative newcomer to Montgomery, the young minister of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. That evening, addressing a crowd gathered at the Holt Street Baptist Church, King declared in that sonorous, ringing voice millions the world over would soon thrill to: "There comes a time that people get tired." When he was finished, Parks stood up so the audience could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Torchbearer ROSA PARKS | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

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