Word: robersons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find reading to children as young as six months helps to get them ready for entering school," said Helen L. Roberson, Reach Out and Read's office manager...
Although playing without Majmudar, Harvard's top three singles players (Blake, Doran and Passarella) all carried away identical 6-0, 6-2 wins over the Sooners' top three (Charlie Roberson, Dusty Beard and Rick Warren, respectively...
...children; some from that newest pseudoscientific fad, recovered memory. "We should not be dragging people through the courts on folklore," protests psychology professor Elizabeth Loftus. Well, folklore reigned in Wenatchee, Washington--Has anyone checked the state water supply?--site of perhaps the most notorious such case. There, Pastor Robert Roberson and about a dozen parishioners were said to have lined up to have sex with young children in front of the altar while shouting, "Hallelujah, there goes the devil...
...Roberson was acquitted last month of all 14 charges, but not before 28 townspeople had been jailed for similar crimes. These cases recall nothing so much as medieval witch-hunts, but with a progressive twist: men too may now be burned at the stake...
...were fortunate, praise the Lord, but this is not over," says Roberson. He intends to file a civil suit against the state, seeks the release of those in prison and supports a local campaign to have the U.S. Justice Department investigate. Indeed, Attorney General Janet Reno has asked her civil rights division to review the case under laws against misusing public office to deprive citizens of their due-process rights; a report is due after Christmas. But it is unclear whether the proofs necessary to convict Perez and others are available in Wenatchee. A state appeals court may free those...