Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a videotape showing the baby's banding. Someone could have swapped the bands later, but right now no one is sure how the switch occurred. And according to at least one source, the university and the state police have few leads so far. "I don't see any particular heat behind the investigation right now," said a law-enforcement source whom the investigators consulted for advice last week. Among the mysteries those investigators should try to puzzle...
...cartoonish entertainer, not an introspective balladeer. Among his better recent work is a musical based on Herman Wouk's Caribbean novel, Don't Stop the Carnival, but the show never made it to Broadway. And though his concerts deliver moments of beauty and power--a song called One Particular Harbor gets people dancing but with tears in their eyes--they also deliver mindless ditties like Cheeseburger in Paradise. "The set I'd like to do is all ballads," he says over dinner in Pittsburgh. "But the carnival atmosphere wouldn't allow it. You've got to do what's necessary...
...This would be highly appropriate for many parts of Mass. Ave. and East Cambridge and North Cambridge in particular," he said...
...agents and police detectives have fanned out across the country to investigate possible links to other disappearances and yet more scams. Safir said eight cases were of particular interest. He refused to elaborate, but in reference to the missing former dancer, he made a point of law. "You do not need a body to charge someone with murder." No, but you do need forensic evidence, argues Sante Kimes' lawyer Jose Muniz, "and there is nothing." Still, charges of credit-card fraud were added to the Kimeses' resume on Friday, and Safir predicts additional charges this Thursday...
...been who Thomas is, but what he has done and how he got into a position to do it. Those are matters Thomas declines to explore, for a very good reason: he may not consider himself an intellectual slave, but he has been lavishly rewarded for serving a particular political master. He has never made a serious attempt to engage his black opponents in a serious debate about his ideas. He owes his meteoric rise exclusively to the patronage of conservative white Republicans with little interest in racial equality. They first took notice of Thomas in 1980 when he cruelly...