Word: petersons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hers may be the only overt influence on his work. It's hard to hear echoes of anyone else in his playing. "There are a lot of pianists in his background--Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, George Shearing," says pianist Dick Hyman, a family friend and mentor. "Perhaps Bill's greatest talent is that he's been able to put all these things together and make something personal and special out of them...
CONVICTED. SCOTT PETERSON, 32, fertilizer salesman and adulterous husband of Laci Peterson; of first- and second-degree murder in the deaths of his wife and her unborn son, respectively; after a five-month, media-frenzied trial; in Redwood City, Calif. Outside the courthouse, hundreds cheered after the verdict was announced. The Peterson case helped inspire the passage earlier this year of a federal law making it a separate crime to harm a fetus during an attack on a pregnant woman. Peterson, whose high-flying legal team will probably appeal the decision, faces either life in prison or death by lethal...
Cambridge Commisioner of Public Works Lisa Peterson said the issue of personal belongings has become wrongly “intertwined” with the problem of trash. Most of the items teachers and parents have complained about—feces, condoms, tampons, broken glass and even mattresses—are not considered personal belongings, Peterson said, so they are not covered by the city’s homeless policy. All of these items are considered trash and are thrown away when the playground is cleaned five days a week...
...resolution at last night’s meeting, which was presented by Vice Mayor Marjorie C. Decker, requested that the City Manager “confer” with Peterson about these procedures and “report on the City’s policies and protocols for handling property of the homeless, including at the Cambridge Commons...
...believe consistency and principle are more important when it comes to the law rather than tethering situational philosophy to legal implications. To solve this inconsistency in a practical way, Scott Peterson should be found guilty of only one count of murder (his wife’s) and then should have extra years and/or the death penalty automatically placed on Peterson’s sentence because his wife carried an unborn child...