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Remember when being charged with child molestation was a bad thing? In a spectacle that even hardened TV-news commentators described as a freak show, pop star MICHAEL JACKSON appeared in a Santa Maria, Calif., court to plead not guilty to seven counts of lewd acts with a child and two counts of giving intoxicants to a child. Outside, hundreds of fans--some of whom arrived on buses chartered by Jacko's camp--screamed their support while Jackson's bodyguards handed out invitations to the star's Neverland Ranch for postarraignment festivities. Later, Jackson climbed onto the roof...
...Harlem and funded it initially by appealing to local organizations and later private foundations. But it wasn’t until 1994 that the program was given federal funding to support replicating the model across the country. Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., was an early champion, according to Maria Vugrin, who is communications specialist at YouthBuild. “He not only introduced the bill but also drummed up a lot of support in Congress and showed why the program is effective,” Vugrin told me. Wider support, she said, came from legislators...
According to Howard, Quincy House Senior Tutor Maria Trumpler contacted her after the Ad Board received a report from the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) about her protest...
CHARGED. MICHAEL JACKSON, 45, eccentric pop star; with seven counts involving a lewd and lascivious act upon a child and two counts of administering an "intoxicating agent," in connection with allegations that he molested a cancer-stricken boy, now 14, in February and March; in Santa Maria, Calif. Jackson could face more than 20 years in prison if convicted on all counts of molestation...
...plot that the drunker among us might find a trifle complicated: a pair of happy-go-lucky gondoliers, Marco (Phillipe Pierce) and Giuseppe (G. Cross Woodfield ’06), each marry a flower-toting Contadina—Gianetta (Caroline E. Jackson ’06) and Tessa (Maria Alu), respectively. The couples’ nuptial bliss is thrown into doubt when it is revealed that one of them—no one can say which for sure—may be the heir to the Kingdom of Barataria. The heir among them was transplanted to Venice at birth?...