Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When New York State Supreme Court Justice Lewis Douglass sent convicted Drug Dealer Agapito Lopez up the river to prison last year, he noted that $440,000 had been found in Lopez's Brooklyn apartment. That was merely cash on hand: in addition, the district attorney's office claims, Lopez owns three houses in New York, a car dealership, and several apartments in his native Puerto Rico. Last week Judge Douglass decided to redistribute some of Lopez's assets. He ordered the dealer to hand over more than $2 million in restitution to New York City's drug-rehabilitation programs...
...orator, Jackson is eloquent, funny and provocative. Hearing Jackson speak is not a passive experience but an active interplay between candidate and voter, the kind of two-way dialogue that has all but disappeared from political life. He virtually grabs his listeners by the hand and drags them over deep crevices of logic and fact to new understanding. These leaps of faith can be breathtaking and at times demagogic. In Hartford last week, Jackson looked up at the shimmering glass of the downtown office towers and intoned, "There is something wrong with this nation when here in this state...
Fortunately for the American theater, the end of Wilson's schooling was not the end of his education. He haunted the local libraries, reading everything from anthropology to verse, and eventually began to try his own hand at writing, first poetry, then folktale adaptations for performance at a science museum, then plays. By the time Wilson, 42, brought his poignant Joe Turner's Come and Gone to Broadway last week, he had established himself as the foremost dramatist of the American black experience. His Broadway debut, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, ran nearly ten months and earned...
...should never be issued by a person involved in the case, as Reagan is in the Iran-contra scandal. No President ever seems to have done so. "Even when Ford pardoned Nixon, there was no question of Ford's being involved in Watergate," says Josephson. "Reagan, on the other hand, could pardon everyone, theoretically including himself. I can't possibly see how that could be proper...
Judge Gerhard Gesell's announced determination to move the indictments along quickly could make a pardon more likely, since a trial could be under way by Election Day, with a verdict in hand before Reagan leaves office on Jan. 20. One scenario is that Reagan would defiantly pardon the Iranscam defendants in the final hours of his presidency; another is that he would grant a pardon right after the election. Waiting until just after the voting would be ethically very dubious, says Washington Lawyer James Hamilton, a former Senate Watergate committee counsel. He believes it would be "highly inappropriate, depriving...