Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kenneth J. Finger, attorney for Margaret M. Cimino '87, said last week that he decided to include Yale and about 50 police department members in the suit after concluding from a city investigation "that there were other parties involved and other people who should have taken action to prevent the incident...
...Finger filed an initial petition against New Haven last month, charging the city with negligence in controlling the crowd at the game...
Judge Harry Claiborne seemed at ease last week in Courtroom 2 of the gray marble federal courthouse in Reno. He leaned back in his chair, stroked a finger across his lips, and listened serenely to the testimony in a criminal trial. But Claiborne, 66, chief judge of Nevada's U.S. District Court, was observing the proceedings from a new perspective. He was not the presiding judge, but the defendant, the second sitting federal judge in U.S. history to be tried for offenses allegedly committed while serving on the bench. The charges against Claiborne: taking bribes, obstructing justice and filing...
...starting back in 1966 with the appearance of his first true verse, "Digging." It announced, as William Butler Yeats announced in one of his own early works, that a vocation was being sought: "Living roots awaken in my head./ But I've no spade to follow.../ Between my finger and my thumb/ The squat pen rests./ I'll dig with...
Jack Olsen will have none of this. In "Son " he is relentlessly out to study the evildoer and finger those who made him go wrong. His subject is a well-dressed, intelligent real estate agent who was eventually convicted of committing four brutal rapes in Spokane, Wash., in the late '70s and was suspected of having committed dozens more. The victims were housewives, career women and schoolgirls ranging in age from 14 to 51. Public officials suppressed news of the savage attacks; they wanted no hints of a crime wave in the Lilac City. But word got around...