Word: mason
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Sharpton and two attorneys, Alton H. Maddox Jr. and C. Vernon Mason, took up the case. They did not let Brawley speak to a grand jury or with New York Attorney General Robert Abrams. When Brawley's mother was subpoenaed, Sharpton advised her not to testify and took her to a church for sanctuary...
Having paralyzed the justice system by silencing all of the witnesses, Sharpton, Maddox and Mason subsequently publicized a series of outlandish conspiracy theories, implicating the Ku Klux Klan, the Irish Republican Army, the Mafia and elected officials of Duchess County, NY in the crime. They viciously slandered public officials--including Attorney General Abrams, whom they branded a sexual pervert and compared to Adolf Hitler...
...that blacks have," says Jonathan Kaufman, author of Broken Alliance, a book about black-Jewish relations. "Jews still remain the one group that's willing to vote for a black candidate." And although the press dwells on alleged black anti- Semitism, Roger Wilkins, a professor of history at George Mason University, observes, "Black people didn't create the law firms and banking firms that wouldn't hire Jews. The Wasps did that...
Back when the Rat Pack ruled, Jackie Mason played Vegas and Edward Albee was on Broadway. Today essentially idea-free spectacle -- The Phantom of the Opera, Cats -- dominates New York City's so-called legitimate theater, and stand-up comedy is ubiquitous. In the '90s, Friars Club comedians like Mason have hit Broadway shows, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical Starlight Express has been permanently installed in the showroom of the Las Vegas Hilton. The crossbreeding seems complete...
...Speaking of the men's basketball team, here's a memo to Harvard Athletic Director Bill Cleary '56: Schedule George Mason as soon as possible for a season in the near future...