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...music, the White Stripes, the Vines (who wowed critics but didn't come close to selling a million records) et al. were not nearly so successful as real relics such as James Taylor, Santana, Springsteen and even Elvis Presley, whose remixed A Little Less Conversation shook its pelvis up the singles charts 25 years after the King's death. This phenomenon was as much a matter of technology as psychology: with the spread of CD burning and online music piracy among kids, middle-aged folks are essentially the only people who buy music anymore...
CLEARED. ANTRON MCCRAY, 28, KEVIN RICHARDSON, 28, YUSEF SALAAM, 28, KHAREY WISE, 30, and RAYMOND SANTANA, 28; of their convictions in the savage 1989 rape and beating of a banker jogging in New York City's Central Park, for which all have served prison time; after new evidence convinced the prosecutors that the sole offender was another man, Matias Reyes; by a New York Supreme Court judge...
...white female stockbroker goes jogging in the park and is raped, beaten and left near dead by a giddy horde of teenagers. Within days, five black and Hispanic teenagers, ages 14 to 16, were arrested and charged with the crime. The teens--Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Kharey Wise--had been part of a larger rampage in which several people were randomly attacked in the park that night. The boys described it as wilding, and four of them confessed on videotape that the jogger had been one of their victims. They later recanted, saying their statements...
...elsewhere in the park. Moreover, Reyes had committed another assault in the park a few days earlier; if investigators had noted the similarities in the cases, they might have considered other suspects besides the boys. The police "had made up their minds," says Roger Wareham, the attorney for McCray, Santana and Richardson. "They weren't going to let anything spoil their neatly tied package of convictions, and they used these children as scapegoats...
...avoid future problems, Santana now has sheriffs on duty and a tip line kids can call. The wounded students have since recovered, and shared in a fund set up for them and the families of the two who died. Mari Gordon-Rayborn, whose son Randy was killed, attended in June what would have been his graduation. She wore his cap and gown...