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Spoken word posterboy Saul Williams has published three volumes of poetry, when not inviting “99 Problems” producer Rick Rubin to lay the beats down on his hip-hop records. DJ Spooky, a Bowdoin graduate with a double major in French and philosophy, who performed at Sanders Theatre in March, weaves webs of aural, visual, and textual references ranging from Derrida to De La Soul...
Spoken word posterboy Saul Williams has published three volumes of poetry, when not inviting “99 Problems” producer Rick Rubin to lay the beats down on his hip-hop records. DJ Spooky, a Bowdoin graduate with a double major in French and philosophy, who performed at Sanders Theatre in March, weaves webs of aural, visual, and textual references ranging from Derrida to De La Soul...
CONVICTION OVERTURNED. Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, 48, former middleweight boxing contender who, along with Truck Driver John Artis, was convicted in 1967 of shooting three people in a Paterson, N.J., tavern; by a U.S. district judge, on the ground that the verdict was based on prejudice and prosecutors' errors. The case received national attention in 1976, when the New Jersey Supreme Court threw out the original convictions. Bob Dylan championed Carter's plight in song and, along with Boxer Muhammad Ali, helped raise a $600,000 defense fund. The two men were convicted again in a retrial after which Carter served...
...first-degree-murder conviction of Black Panther Activist Frank ("Parky") Grace; a co-defendant and a witness had changed their testimony, but Grace's lawyers won because they also provided a wealth of new corroborating evidence. In a celebrated New Jersey murder case, a witness against former Middleweight Boxer Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter announced that he had lied at the original 1967 trial. Yet when the state's supreme court reversed the Carter conviction in 1976, it stated that it was not considering the recantation. (At the retrial, the witness changed his story back again, and Carter was reconvicted...
...years, earning a record $6.5 million, $2.5 million more than his nearest competitor. Two weeks ago, a few days before he was scheduled to begin his 84th race, at Hollywood Park in California, John Henry injured a tendon in his right foreleg during a routine workout. Last week Sam Rubin, who bought the high-spirited gelding for $25,000 seven years ago, announced that racing's grand old superstar was finally retiring from the track. The two-time Horse of the Year, five-time Eclipse award winner and emotional favorite of fans will be put out to pasture. "Truthfully," says...