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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think everyone is looking for who's the hero that is going to get us out of what we're in now. I heard somebody on the radio the other day - one of these talk shows - saying, "Oh, where's the new General Patton? Where's the guy who says, 'I don't give a s--- what the politicians want, this is what we should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clint Eastwood on Heroism | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...Jimmy, then 11, chasing his older brother Jack around the house, calling him a "pork-barrel spender"--a deep cut in the McCain home. During that year, when McCain was on the road in New Hampshire, the candidate proudly read aloud from a school report on General George S. Patton Jr. by Jimmy that he had faxed to his father: "The Tanks Will Roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The McCains and War: Like Father, Like Son | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

...July 24, 1980, she was sentenced to five years' confinement at Patton State Hospital. Just seven months later, on her doctor's recommendation, she was released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Garbo of Bondage | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...herself off." When brought to court, "Bettie pleaded not guilty but changed her plea to not guilty by reason of insanity after two California Department of Medical Health doctors testified that she was insane and had confessed to the attack." She was sentenced to 8-1/2 years in Patton. She stayed there until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Garbo of Bondage | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...Haddad sued the state of California for $1,750,000, arguing that Bettie should not have been released from Patton and that a prospective landlord should have been alerted to her history of violence. The state settled for $70,000, which, after lawyers' fees, brought Haddad about $40,000 - hardly enough, she told Foster, to cover her medical expenses. When he interviewed her in 1994, she still had no feeling in two of her fingers. Bettie, while in confinement, got word to Haddad that she hoped to meet again some day and express her remorse. Haddad said no thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Garbo of Bondage | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

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