Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...head held high, his gangly 6 ft. 5 in. frame clad in rolled-up blue jeans and a Windbreaker, strides in, startling a middle-aged couple at lunch. The man, still in golf togs, drops a steak knife and says, "Edith, I can't believe he's out of prison; it's the guy who built this hotel...
Davis targeted welfare reform, the prison industrial complex, immigrant rights and political prisoners as central issues that should be addressed by activists and politicians...
WASHINGTON: In its annual human rights report, the State Department harshly reprimands China for silencing all voices of dissent. The report states: "All public dissent against party and government was effectively silenced by intimidation, exile or the imposition of prison terms, administrative detention, or house arrest. No dissidents were known to be active at year's end." Ironically, the survey was released even as two U.S. delegations were visiting China to talk about trade and human rights. Much to the chagrin of human rights activists, President Clinton delinked the two issues in his first term, a line new Secretary...
...YORK: More than ten years after he described being beaten by a mysterious man shouting, "Kenneth, what's the frequency?" Dan Rather has finally identified his assailant. Rather said Tuesday that "there's no doubt in my mind" that William Tager, now in prison for the 1994 shooting death of an NBC technician, is the man who repeatedly kicked him while he was walking down Park Avenue in the fall of 1986. Rather was tipped off to Tager's identity by a psychiatrist who interviewed Tager after he was arrested for shooting Campbell Theron Montgomery. Montgomery was killed when...
...Wall Street type who sits down in a restaurant and immediately begins talking loudly into a cell phone about what would or wouldn't be a deal-breaker and who is or isn't a player? If the rap for intercepting cell-phone conversations (up to five years in prison) is considered too harsh for this sort of infraction, what about giving this guy some lesser penalty like suspension of luxury-sedan driving privileges or confiscation of red suspenders...