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...conviction. On a preliminary appeal, Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls, ruled that the jury could consider the conviction; he added that he had always been irked anyway by "the strange rule of law which says that a conviction is not evidence of guilt." Thus simultaneously bound and freed by the law, the jury found that Goody had indeed been libeled, then awarded him
...says he was born in Liberia in 1842, the son of one Lindy Watkins. When he was only twelve, he was lured on board a slave ship commanded by a Captain Legree and taken to the U.S. He was sold, assumed his owner's name and was freed after the Civil War. Some of his story seems to check out: Watkins was a common name in Liberia in the 1840s, and slave-ship records actually list two slave-ship captains named Legree. Charlie also recalls a few words of what has been identified as a Liberian dialect...
...Republican approach to the larger $3.4 billion elementary-and secondary-school bill, a proposal that the Democrats had defeated in a spirited dispute. This time, however, the Democrats were willing to yield federal power because the alternative was no bill at all. In money terms, the compromise freed $3,800,000 for the corps's immediate needs and provided a three-year authorization of $135 million that provides for annual expansion of the program through fiscal...
...Missouri Teamsters, his excessively fervent praise for Hoffa at a Miami Beach Teamster convention last year, his subcommittee's apparent fascination with whether federal agents had illegally bugged telephone conversations between Hoffa and one of his lawyers-a charge that, if proven by the committee, might possibly have freed Hoffa...
...Beats. In the 20th century so far, the devotees of the "second chance" have constituted a remarkable poetic pantheon. The Zeus of that lofty company is himself still alive, though he has long since had his say. Erza Pound, 81, now living in Italy, fathered modern English poetry, freed it from excessive strictures of meter, rhetoric and prosody. One of his earliest converts was T. S. Eliot, who sensed the dilemma of modern, urban and areligious man, and whose dry, ironic style and endless rhythmic ways of weaving contemporary sounds are echoed in virtually every poet's work today...