Word: sharptons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reverend Al Sharpton, a controversial New York political figure, shared the Harvard Law School (HLS) stage with former New York City Mayor--and Sharpton's former adversary--Edward I. Koch yesterday...
...Sharpton said that, despite continuing differences with Koch on other issues, he is glad they are collaborating on the criminal rehabilitation project...
Marketing one's virtue has its limitations. It magnifies each compromise he makes: his opposition to taxing products on the Internet, a big hit with Silicon Valley; his reversal on clemency for Puerto Rican terrorists; his overtures to New York's black power broker, the Rev. Al Sharpton; his sudden support for ethanol subsidies (which he once called "highway robbery"). Then he insists he isn't just another vote-grubbing pol. "When you're a national candidate, you see things in a different context," he says. "I'm being upfront and direct about...
...late 1980s. But do not let the terrible movie adaptation prejudice you against reading the book. Bonfire captured the black comedy of American society and justice during the Me decade; the story of Sherman McCoy's encounter with Reverend Bacon and Henry Lamb presaged the Tawana Brawley-Al Sharpton scam with eerie accuracy. Given the book's success, one can understand the promotional circus surrounding A Man in Full, Wolfe's newest book, which earned the dapper author a spot on NBC's "Today" and the cover of Time Magazine...
...seek patterns. Politicians, commentators and storytelling media (movies, television) give us myths; to supervise everyday chaos, we need the law, especially in the borderland of lies. Last week the law did its work: a jury vindicated Pagones. It found that Sharpton and the others were guilty of defaming him. The jurors then withdrew to consider how much to assess in damages...