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...Sept. 9, 1993, Christopher Simmons, aged 17, brutally murdered Shirley Crook in St. Louis. The teenager tied her up in duct tape, electrical cable, leather straps and a towel before driving to the nearby state park to push her off a bridge into the Meramac River. Although Simmons bragged to his friends before the crime that his age would shield him from the consequences, he was sentenced to death. The Missouri Supreme Court, however, overturned the decision, citing “evolving standards of decency” that should otherwise prevent sentencing minors to death...
...interview with the Crimson yesterday, West said the difference between the administration at Harvard and Princeton was “night and day”. “Shirley M. Tilghman is a visionary leader and Larry Summers to me is an unprincipled power player,” West said...
Future violinist/guitarist/vocalist Irene S. Choi ’07 and drummer Shirley L. Hufstedler ’07 were fellow compers for Record Hospital, the underground rock program on student radio station WHRB. Klein met bassist Tessa B. Johung ’07 through a mutual friend. The fifth member of the band she found close to home: her roommate Karima M. Porter ’07 agreed to sing and play guitar, although she had never before picked up the instrument...
Successful sitcom spin-offs--Frasier, Laverne & Shirley--give their lead characters new challenges and foils and find a fresh voice that suits them. In this show, Joey Tribbiani, Matt LeBlanc's sweet-hearted dope, heads West to jump-start his career and reconnect with his equally Noo Yawky sister Gina (The Sopranos' Drea de Matteo). We also meet his nephew Michael (Paulo Costanzo), a rocket scientist; his sharky agent, Bobbie (one-woman brass band Jennifer Coolidge); and his bland, pretty, married neighbor Alex (Andrea Anders). But none of these types are fresh or memorable. There's no Niles. Not even...
Many of our characters [on Laverne & Shirley] were from Brooklyn. Cindy [Williams, who played Shirley] has a bad New York accent in the first six shows. She thought she had to talk like...