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...like the Aryan Brotherhood and the Aryan Circle. When the Texas prisons were desegregated in the early 1980s, whites and blacks were spread evenly throughout the prison system. Blacks, who were 60% of the inmate population, became a dominant force in many cellblocks. It "helped the white-supremacy groups recruit because whites were the minority and were becoming victims," says Sammy Buentello, head of the Texas department of criminal justice's gang-management office. A former state-prison psychologist testified at trial that an assault by black inmates may have played a critical role in King's racist conversion...
During his time in jail, prosecutors say, King was making plans to form a Jasper chapter of the Confederate Knights of America, to be called the Texas Rebel Soldiers. Brewer was King's first recruit, the government says, and Berry was the second. William Matthew Hoover, a fellow inmate of King's and an Aryan Brotherhood member, testified that King may have been planning an initiation ritual for his new gang that included kidnapping a black man, driving him to the woods and killing him. "They have to take someone out," Hoover testified. "Blood in, blood out. You have...
...certainly up to both of them," said Head Coach Katey Stone. "I told them both that I would support whatever decision they made. This is what happens when you recruit that kind of talent. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices...
...Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli surmised on Meet the Press that Hillary would run. For Torricelli, who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, there were political reasons for keeping Hillary's name in play: the prospect of her as a candidate instantly made it harder for the G.O.P. to recruit its own candidates for New York's open seat, which Democrats desperately need to keep...
...Ijamsville, Md. native was a four-year starter at prestigious DeMatha High School, where in his senior year he captained a team ranked No. 10 in the nation by USA Today. A touted recruit, Hill was courted by several ACC schools but opted for Harvard early decision...