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...scandal refers to the 1986 weekend furlough release of Willie Horton, who was serving a life sentence for murder in a Massachusetts prison. Horton did not return to jail after his furlough and subsequently raped a woman twice, after assaulting her fiancé in April...
According to Susan R. Estrich, Dukakis’s campaign manager in 1988, the Willie Horton scandal then became a “surrogate for the question of values” in the election, an instrument for determining whether one was “on the side of the criminal or the victim of the crime...
Estrich, however, who has written about her own experience as a rape survivor, said she had known very well how powerful the Willie Horton issue would...
...million, and no doubt Disney would have liked a bigger start for their way-before-Christmas movie. But it registered the best first weekend of any Jim Carrey movie of the past five years in which he has been seen. (In the CGI-cartoon version of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who, Carrey provided the elephant's voice.) And Goats opened stronger than any Clooney movie of this decade that didn't costar Brad Pitt. The Box certainly didn't measure up to recent Diaz openings, even middling ones. But, like Goats, it cost only about $25 million to make...
Similar companies will be opening in the U.S. soon, predicted Horton, who holds an MBA from Yale. Horton said his company charges the same rates as in stores or lower and gets its cut from participating companies. He also said cell phone numbers would only be used to send the text with the gift code and would not be used for advertising...