Word: michael
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...push drugs, commit robberies and sometimes murder. In New Haven, two brothers, Ernest Washington, 16, and Erik, 14, along with four other kids, were arrested for robbing and killing a Yale student. Since Erik was underage, he confessed that he had pulled the trigger. He told New Haven Prosecutor Michael Whalen: "The most you're going to give me is two years." Erik, in fact, was bound over to adult court. At his trial last month, guess what? Erik denied doing the shooting. It did not help. He was convicted and sentenced to 15 years to life. Says Whalen...
...social programs that seem to work best are those that aim to reassert the youths' individual responsibility. "It's a cop-out to blame their problems on anything but themselves," declares Michael Major, 30, director of a youth program in Providence called Junction, which has had a better than 50% success record in getting its kids out of crime; the usual success rate is much lower. Among the many roads to self-reliance, Major
...William Shakespeare, visiting The Tempest. Michael Demarest...
...Cutting individual and corporate tax rates. A particular target is the 70% top tax rate on "unearned" income -dividends, interest, rents. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal believes that setting the rate so high penalizes savings: he wants to make the rate no higher than the tax on "earned" income (basically wages and salaries), which now tops out at 50%. Rates would also be cut on down the line; a few percentage points would be shaved off the 14% rate on the lowest taxable incomes. And taxes on corporate profits, now 48% on all income above $50,000 a year, might...
Married. Lesley Hornby, 27, singer and former model, better known as Twiggy; and Michael Witney, 44, an American actor (The Way West, W);she for the first time, he for the second; in Richmond, England...