Word: houston
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Antonio 115, Houston...
...Clinton is obsessed with the future, it may be because, when he becomes one of the youngest ex-Presidents, he can expect so much more. In off-the-cuff remarks at a late-night Houston fund raiser earlier this month, Clinton suddenly broke into a disquisition on the movie Amistad and the heroic role that John Quincy Adams played as an ex-President. One line about Adams seemed to have struck home with the current Chief Executive: "Is there anything as pathetic as an ex-President?" Clinton told the crowd, "I'll try to beat the odds...
...victims of recent, horrible child abuse. The case of Robert Anthony Carter, a child of abuse who was put on death row in Texas 15 years ago for crimes he allegedly committed when he was 17 years old, is not atypical. Carter, who is black, grew up in a Houston housing project and was routinely taunted and beaten by other children because his clothes were ragged and dirty. His mother and stepfather would thrash Robert and his five siblings with wooden sticks and electric cords. At age five, he was hit in the head with a brick...
...Faye Tucker is the nicest woman on death row. She is so nice, in fact, and so well liked by people who know her that it is virtually impossible to look at this attractive, sweet-natured, born-again Christian and imagine the gruesome crime to which she confessed in Houston, Texas, on June 13, 1983. Back then she was a drug-addicted prostitute who, during a weekend orgy with her boyfriend, had consumed an astonishing quantity of heroin, Valium, speed, percodan, mandrax, marijuana, dilaudid, methadone, tequila and rum. The two then took a pickax and hacked to death Jerry Lynn...
...Site: Houston Field House...