Word: prison
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Where once color distinctions had been so insignificant as to go unrecorded in, among other things, prison and labor rosters, segragation appeared, and where once uneasy competition for labor contracts had maintained a degree of tranquility, anti-black riots and violence erupted in major New England cities...
Better written (and acted) than your average "Women in Prison" movie, the plot is still basically the same: there are a bunch of women locked in a small, dirty space; some of them are lesbians; they are all rude and nasty; they fight with the guards; the guards fight back; the guards get involved with them and/or try to rape them; the warden is evil; through the whole trying experience, someone dies, and the rest of them become better people and closer friends through all of it. Yawn...
Does the analogy fit? Has Hillary Clinton ever been associated with anything quite as shameful as Richard Nixon's 1950 Senate campaign, when, brimming with anti-communist arrogance after sending Alger Hiss to prison, Nixon ruthlessly demonized his Democratic opponent as "pink right down to her underwear?" Mrs. Clinton has been one of the most criticized, pilloried, and despised First Ladies. Yet, has she ever launched into a bitter and embarassing tirade at the press, like Nixon, who in 1962, angrily declared to reporters: "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore...
...Harshbarger Releases 'Top Ten Frivolous Suits,'" (wire story, Crimson, June 27, 1995) the Attorney General whined about a crisis in the courts that were being over-whelmed along with his staff of lawyers by "frivolous" inmate civil rights suits. The outsider crusading reformer Attorney General suggested having prison guards dismiss the inmate lawsuits as an extension of the judicial power to prison guards...
WASHINGTON, D. C.: Former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell took time out from the 21 month prison term he's serving for Whitewater-related fraud to go before the Senate Whitewater Committee for the third time on Wednesday. Hubbell denied that he intentionally misled federal regulators in their inquiry two years ago into a possible conflict of interest in the Rose law firm where he and Hillary Clinton were both partners. Hubbell's testimony was prompted by the discovery last month in the Clinton residence of Rose law firm billing records that had been missing under subpoena for 18 months...