Word: felons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NORMAN Mailer put a new twist on the ex-con-as-artist theme a while back when he got felon and author Jack Henry Abbott released from prison and back on the streets, where he killed again. Although director John Hancock is a little less daring in his treatment of the theme, his Weeds is one weird melange of a movie...
Steiner added yesterday that the University would get involved in such a case only if a connection existed between the felon's action and Harvard. "Therewould have to be a close correlation between theperson's personal actions outside the University"and Harvard, he said...
...What does it mean," thinks a Boston policeman stopping a Black teenager speeding in a Saab turbo, "when Blacks can routinely live as good or better lives than I?" The policeman rebels against the thought, deciding that a kid having fun in a graduation present must be a felon, and so instead of receiving a moving violation, someone's child is dragged down to the station though he has registration in hand...
...America's ethnic heritage; among the recipients were Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Walter Cronkite and Muhammad Ali. But the list was even more varied than the award's sponsors realized. James Tamer, 74, a Michigan country-club owner honored as a Lebanese-American activist, turned out to be a convicted felon as well. Tamer served five years for a 1934 bank robbery. In 1979 federal prosecutors alleged he had operated a Las Vegas hotel casino as a front man for Vito Giacalone, a reputed member of the Detroit Mafia. Before Jackie, Walter or the others could comment, Tamer declined the honor...
...week the committee opened for testimony. Impatience is already running high. A nine-member House team of "managers," or prosecutors, in the case, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, asked that the Senate find Claiborne guilty on the spot, using just the evidence that he is a convicted felon. Committee Chairman Charles Mathias of Maryland rejected that proposal...