Word: michael
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...said the special committee, appointed by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, outlined a four-point plan for improving Massachusetts courts...
Alex Haley, against stupendous odds, pursued his Roots two centuries back to darkest Gambia. For 130 million Americans glued to the eight-part Haley-Kinte TV chronicle in January, it was a transit through time and tears more gripping than Upstairs, Downstairs or any Stanley Kubrick fantasy. Says Michael Tepper, editor of Genealogical Publishing Co. in Baltimore: "Roots has shown that what seemed remote and mysterious is in fact knowable and within our grasp. It has awakened a smoldering awareness of facts we only thought were unknowable...
...studied the problem of violence were quick to concede. Seeing violence on television, observed Purdue Psychologist Robert A. Baron, not only gives "unstable people the idea of doing the same, but also teaches them exactly how to go about it -it cuts out trial and error." Said veteran Lawman Michael Spiotto, Chicago's first deputy police superintendent: "Overpublicizing crime tends to bring the kooks out of the woodwork...
Said Columbia Law Professor Frank Grad: "It's very dangerous to restrain First Amendment liberties. The chance of occasional excesses is not too heavy a price to pay for assurance of liberty." Said New York Daily News Editor Michael O'Neill: "We must weigh one value, of a fully informed public, against another, the risk of some madman imitating what he has seen or read. The first enormously outweighs the second...
When the charge went before the grand jury, however, Queens Prosecutor Michael Schwed accused not the deprogrammers but the Hare Krishnas themselves. The grand jury indicted two leaders of the sect, Angus Murphy and Harold Conley, for "unlawful imprisonment" of Merylee, on the theory that she had lost her free will due to Hare Krishna "mind control." For good measure, the two leaders were also accused of brainwashing another convert, Ed Shapiro, 22, and of getting him to try to extort a $20,000 family trust fund from his father. Young Shapiro had once been worked on by Ted Patrick...