Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...penalty hearing, three days later, was a disaster. The Cousin family boycotted it to protest the guilty verdict, Robert Epps arrived too late to testify as a character witness, and because Cousin had, a few weeks earlier, accepted a 4-count plea on some robbery charges (an agreement he now claims was coerced), he was effectively portrayed by prosecutors as a hardened criminal and was sentenced to death. Stafford-Smith has been working on Shareef's appeal ever since. "When I was a kid, I read about America's having the death penalty," he says. "I couldn't believe...
Mexico Faces Chaos Fallout from the killing of 45 in Chiapas continues as 80,000 take to the streets of Mexico City to protest. "Things could go crazy here this week," says TIME's Latin America bureau chief...
...quite separate. Music is good at conveying ambiguous emotional states, at least for me. Some people have written great protest songs, but what I like to do is sort of let the music be ambiguous and have liner notes and interviews that are much more straightforward and prosaic...
What causes were available? There was no Vietnam War to protest, no sexual revolution or drug culture to adopt (live free and die), no generation gap worth exploiting. The Gap had become a clothing store, the counterculture reduced to a few average hysterics who thought it exciting to proclaim God dead and the family expendable. As for opposing technology, it seemed out of the question. A decision had already been made to join our machines rather than beat...
...transcripts from the plane's cockpit voice recorder (the captain at one point noted the plane was climbing especially fast, like a "homesick angel") and toughing out excruciatingly detailed computer-generated crash simulations and a slide marked "Chart 4.7--Body Fragmentation," several dozen relatives marched from the hall to protest the unapologetic testimony of medical examiner Dr. Charles Wetli, whose work they still think was slow and insensitive...