Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conflict, the upheaval was real. It divided the faculty into factions that often affect debate even today. It prompted President Pusey to justify the police actions because "the future of the University was at stake." It sent more than 100 Harvard and Radcliffe students to a Cambridge city jail...
...full-figured ladies parading to Vicksburg's Baptist church on Sundays. Ever since an aunt taught him to sew, Kelly has known what he wanted to be. Nonetheless, at Jackson State University, then an all-black school, he went through a "militant stage." His best friend hanged himself in jail. "I remember singing 'Burn, baby, burn,' and knowing what it meant," Kelly says. And there was the teacher, Michael Thomas recalled, who "told Pat he'd never amount to anything. Right after that, Pat dropped...
...lapel of a well-cut gray suit, Fred reflects on his rise from the ghetto to the good life. "I always ask my mother, 'If I hadn't played basketball, what would have happened?' " he says. "Ninety percent of the people I grew up with are dead or in jail, and I would have been the same way. Without basketball, I wouldn't have had an outlet." The challenge is to help more student athletes channel their talents into usable skills rather than into the dead end of broken dreams...
Adams had been in jail for eight years when Errol Morris, an avant-garde film-maker from New York City, came to Texas to make a documentary about Dr. James Grigson, known as Dr. Death to defense lawyers for his consistent findings that convicted murderers were so unrepentant that they deserved execution. In its zeal to help Morris, the Dallas district attorney's office turned over the dusty records from Adams' trial. What Morris found in the boxes was more intriguing than Dr. Death: evidence of a prosecution willing to bend, if not break, the guarantees of a fair trial...
Even so, prosecutors were determined to keep Adams in jail, discounting Harris' statements as the rantings of a condemned man. (Harris is on death row for a 1985 murder.) But on March 1, an appellate court unanimously threw out Adams' conviction, finding that the state was guilty of suppressing evidence favorable to Adams, deceiving the trial court and knowingly using perjured testimony...