Word: sams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman has not been executed in Texas since, according to a New York Times article by Sam Verhovek (Jan. 1), "Chipita Rodriguez was put to death for murdering a horse trader" in 1863. Only one woman has been executed since capital punishment was re-permitted in American...
...Whittaker Chambers (Random House) Historian Sam Tanenhaus rights an old imbalance in this scrupulous biography. For more than 40 years, most discussions of the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers affair focused on Hiss: innocent, as he claimed, or guilty, as Chambers charged? But of the two, Chambers was by far the more interesting person and tormented soul. Tanenhaus' perceptive illumination of Chambers' life also lights up a dark, troubled period of American history...
...What makes the situation so terrible is that Eric was a wonderful person," said Sam Rosaldo '98. "He was a part of the '95 and '96 summer programs, and in '97 he became a junior counselor. I remember that he loved to paint, and he was a terrific artist," Rosaldo said. "I still have one of his paintings on my wall here at Harvard...
...went into it with Lamelle's backing, but it was my first year on the council and I don't think a lot of people knew who I was," she said. "Beth Stewart and Sam Cohen's campaign was very well publicized. We were definitely endorsed by student groups, but Beth and Sam just were more public...
Stewart tried to reassure political opponents that they wil still have a voice in the student government. "Most of the council has worked with both Sam and I," she said. "There's no one on the council that thinks our election is the disaster of the century. Some are worried, but they have no need to fear...