Word: owned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Criminal Judge Thomas A. White was picked to fill a vacancy in 1977. Why? "I'm Irish," he says. "Of course, I'm qualified," he hastily adds, but he matter-of-factly explains that the Democratic Party needed an Irish judge to "balance the ethnic makeup" of their...
Moran, who has been on the bench for twelve years, is known for running a strict court; with 450 cases a year, he has to. "The way to irritate Moran," says the judge about himself, "is to ask for continuances." He is a one-man show: he does all his...
The owner pursued and identified his own cattle. But how, Moran asked, could he identify them? "Well," the man replied, "I just went up there and called out their names and they came right to me." Moran smiles broadly retelling the story. "You know, I went home that night and...
Such speech, widely known as black English, is customarily pounced upon by teachers trying to teach standard English usage. Though that would seem a normal part of pedagogy, a small group of Green Road parents felt that teachers were expressing their disapproval of black English too harshly, causing student embarrassment...
David Johansen, rocking hard, stakes out his own territory