Word: rakings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ongoing battle between the Providence Police Department (PPD) and the Rake, a student publication at Brown University, over access to police brutality records may be entering a new phase...
Although the Rhode Island Supreme Court ordered the police department to open its record to the "collective" publication last November after a heated 18-month battle, collective member Mark Toney (Brown '82) says that because of a $528.48 "preparation charge" levied on the documents by the Department, the Rake is still far from uncovering the "widespread police abuse we feel is happening daily in Providence...
Consequently, the Rake is once again considering further legal action--this time to force the PPD to lower...
...Ball, Bette Davis), British-born stars (James Mason, Roddy McDowall, Julie Andrews, Dudley Moore, Rod Stewart, Elton John), movers and shakers (Henry Kissinger, Armand Hammer) and the special-interest famous (Henry Winkler, Mort Sahl). British reporters were nonplussed by M.C. Ed McMahon but mostly liked George Burns' aging-rake jokes, while the Queen, looking unamused, seemed to scrutinize more than enjoy the pop medley sung by Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. In all, said Britain's Guardian, "not exactly an exhilarating performance." When the Queen left promptly at 11, some of the famous Americans disobeyed orders and stood...
...facts have come to light, the press has not hesitated to rake White over the coals The Boston Globe led the charge last summer when it parted ways with White, who it had endorsed four times: "Of the half-dozen candidates now running," declared a Globe editorial, "any of them would be preferable to Kevin White in 1983." Since then, not only has the criticism increased, but, strangely, it has spawned another, more benign sentiment: White shouldn't run because, hurt by the corruption issue, he has no chance of winning. The New York Times jumped into the act last...