Word: jr
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...artist Roy Lichtenstein that defined the whole notion of in-your-face. That story appeared at a moment when the conduct of national affairs had collapsed into something armed and dangerous. It was 1968, just days after the murder of Robert Kennedy, and before him of Martin Luther King Jr., when the exit wound was becoming a standard problem in American politics. Though the bloodshed of those years emerged out of many causes, one of them was surely the long-standing American romance with guns--the mystique and abundance of firearms, and the ease with which they moved from...
...thrilled that she is joining us in the fall and look forward not only to her day-to-day interaction at the school but also to the added dimension she will bring to the Institute of Politics," said Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye, Jr...
...much better person today than the one you sentenced," Susan McDougal told Judge George Howard Jr. yesterday after he reduced her sentence to time served. "I promise you won't be sorry." But to stay out of prison, McDougal will have to persuade more judges and juries of the same -- or at least convince them of the deterioration of her spinal condition that persuaded Judge Howard to free her on compassionate grounds. The former Clinton Whitewater associate goes to trial in California next month on charges she embezzled $150,000 from the conductor Zubin Mehta when she worked...
...courthouse in Jasper, Texas, but the Klansmen face the unfamiliar experience of having their activities monitored by shotgun-wielding members of the New Black Panther Party, who plan to protect the town's black citizens. The Klan event is ostensibly intended to condemn the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr. for which three men with white supremacist links have been charged...
...clarity, one that demands tearing a human being limb from limb and scattering his or her remains to the winds to quench some dire compulsion for cosmic order. That kind of bacchanalia, bloody and bestial, did not perish with the age of Sophocles. The remains of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper County, East Texas, are testament to its endurance...