Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mother more than 20 years ago but also that paternity of Jackson was "a possibility." His lawyer confirms he helped support her while she was in school. Why, then, is Jackson on trial? "Prosecutors have a hard time resisting the temptation to be in the headlines," says Gerard Lynch, a former federal prosecutor...
...wants to discuss "how this will affect CBS if I go to any tabloids," or a videotape of the backstage party that followed that final shoot of The Cosby Show, showing Cosby with his arm draped around Jackson. "However much Mr. Cosby is beloved by the universe," says Lynch, "if this young woman has some reasonable basis for believing he is her father, then she becomes in my mind, and I would think for most jurors, a fairly sympathetic figure." Though law professor Stephen Gillers of New York University doubts the defense arguments will prevail, he predicts, "They will tarnish...
...David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Kyle MacLachlan finds a missing ear, and later the head it once belonged...
...turn to die. His execution was cause for some self-congratulation in Alabama because, unlike most of those who have been put to death before him, Hays is white. What's more, he is the son of a Ku Klux Klan leader who, the prosecution said, ordered him to lynch a black as a "show of strength" in 1981, after a jury failed to convict a black man accused of killing a white police officer. Hays and a friend snatched 19-year-old Michael Donald off a Mobile street, then beat, cut, strangled and strung him up. Sixteen years later...
...review. That couldn't be more fitting, because the ad wars are turning Madison Avenue into a shelled-out battleground where huge chunks of business are blasted loose and flying around, creating career casualties when they land. At Burnett, a boardroom coup in March toppled CEO Bill Lynch and his protege, Jim Jenness, and restored chairman Rick Fizdale...