Word: hersh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Year), the Showcase covers everything from rock to hip-hop to folk to R&B to country, featuring close to 200 up-coming-and-almost-there new unsigned, Indie and major label acts. Previous showcases have platformed Aerosmith, De La Soul, Ben Arnold, Face To Face, Kristin Hersh and Fishbone. A $20 wristband will let you club-hop through Boston's top clubs for both Friday and Saturday: we suggest My Favorite Relative (Bill's Bar), Joel Cage (Club Passim), Sheila Divine (Upstairs at the Middle East) and Hummer (TT The Bear's) on Friday; and Brass Monkeys (Greek American...
...Miami last week, a Honduran peasant who as a boy had been selling cilantro for pennies to make a living testified that he was lured into the pedophile underground by Marvin Hersh, 58, a Florida college professor. "I thought he was one of God's marvels," said Juan Antonio Ramirez, now 18. "Since he was so nice, I did it from the bottom of my heart...I'm ashamed, but the truth is the truth." Hersh is the first American to be prosecuted for traveling abroad to have sex with a minor. According to Juan's testimony, he befriended...
...Hersh has pleaded innocent to all charges and has challenged the sex-tourism law's constitutionality. Says his lawyer David Tucker: "It's a troubling statute because it criminalizes conduct which may not be illegal in other countries. If you're in France and driving under the influence of alcohol, do we have a right to prosecute you when you get home?" But even if Hersh wins on constitutional grounds, he faces charges of smuggling a minor into the country for sex, possession of child pornography and passport fraud...
...Though Hersh's topic was serious, his tone was informal. He entered laden with suitcases, which he dumped in a corner of the room before speaking. He interacted with the audience members, asking them questions of his own after answering theirs...
...Hersh wrote for The New York Times and won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. He is the author of six books, including The Darker Side of Camelot...