Word: kwame
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Last summer, a judge sent the former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, to jail for violating his bail. How was that case different from Madoff's? In that case, Kilpatrick traveled to Canada. International travel is about the most threatening thing a defendant can do to raise a judge's inference that he is a risk for flight. So that really raised the radar of the judge. What's more, Kilpatrick got the order not to travel out of the Detroit area in his criminal case. In this case, the order that Madoff was accused of violating...
...represents the more optimistic side of Africa carries great symbolism. During the continent's post-independence history, Ghana has often been a crucible of all Africa's hope. It was the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain independence from its colonial ruler, Britain, in 1957. Its first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was also a lead figure in the pan-African nationalist movement. That didn't stop Ghana from falling victim to the same demons that have plagued much of the continent since independence: Nkrumah was ousted in a military takeover in 1966 and the country has had four more coups...
...going. But we’ve had occasions in the past in which things seem to be going a certain way and then didn’t. The whole question of independence in Africa, for instance, was drowned one morning by the Cold War. So people who had followed Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, his exploits and where he seemed to be going, were suddenly disappointed. So this, I couldn’t avoid some such feeling, remember Nkrumah, or remember something. But this went on to the end. So the first thing is to be astonished. I am astonished...
...remains to be seen whether Wilkerson’s narrative will end where former Detroit Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick’s hubris-fueled collapse did: in the penitentiary. Last month, Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to eight felony charges of obstruction of justice after his lackadaisical attempt to snuff out rumors of the extramarital affair he was carrying on over thousands of SMS messages with his chief of staff. Kilpatrick’s cover-up looked like something out of the Huey Long playbook: intimidating and firing police officers, lying under oath and all the while using his privileged position...
...thing is, Kwame Kilpatrick was becoming a good mayor and making some progress. He had a brilliant future." - Michael Smith, Detroit historian, on Kilpatrick's resignation (New York Times, Sept...