Word: joe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your enemies are as important as your friends. Clinton's enemies: Joe Camel, the NRA, despoilers of the Grand Canyon. Dole's enemies: teachers, the N.A.A.C.P., Katie Couric, minimum-wage workers. And with friends like Newt, Dole couldn't really afford enemies. All those double-date press conferences during the budget negotiations looked like a buddy movie with Newt the star and Dole the sidekick. If Newt were really Dole's friend, he wouldn't be running around the country swinging a plastic bucket to symbolize all the money the revolution saved on congressional ice deliveries while his standard-bearer...
...citizen, may be innocent of this murder: his attorney has a stack of affidavits maintaining that the crime was committed by the man who became the state's star witness against Payne, as well as a signed document in which that witness confesses to framing him. Why, then, is Joe Payne still facing execution? "That's got me baffled," he admits...
...that reason, cases like Joe Payne's will probably become more common. Originally incarcerated for killing a store clerk, he claims to have been in the shower when Dunford was killed. Several eyewitnesses have since supported his claim and fingered one Robert Smith as the killer. The reason they didn't speak up at his trial, they later said, was that they figured that the worst that could befall Payne was a second life sentence. "[It seemed like] a white guy's problem," Eddie Phillips, who is black, later said. But when Payne got death, "to me it became...
...long and distinguished career as a pioneering neuroscientist and is widely respected as a gifted and passionate teacher," Their said. "The decade he spent at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School provides Joe with a valuable perspective of the University and its affiliated teaching hospitals...
University spokesperson Joe Wrinn said court officials report that Chang claimed to be a Harvard student. Wrinn also said that Chang is not a student at Harvard...