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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...situated 181 miles north of Los Angeles)), you've got into a lot of trouble because of your so-called creative sentencing. You've made defendants quit smoking, attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings or see a psychiatrist as conditions of probation. You ordered a thief to wear a T shirt proclaiming he was on probation. You told a man who beat his ex-wife to leave town. You sentenced a man who assaulted someone to donate his car to a shelter for battered women. Isn't this eye-for-an-eye justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Judge Whose Ideas Nearly Got Him Killed: Howard Broadman | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

Today his task is to deliver a eulogy for a fallen comrade. Before entering the scruffy cemetery on the edge of the township, Mcerwa takes off his T shirt, emblazoned with a picture of a guerrilla fighter triumphantly holding up an AK-47 rifle, and pulls on a dashiki, a loose-fitting African tunic. "Power!" he shouts to the 100 assembled mourners. "One Azania! One nation!" As a hot morning sun beats down, he angrily accuses a white-owned chemical company of murdering his comrade by exposing him to dangerous toxins on the job. "They think black life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Extremes in Black and White | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...forty, drinking a cup of coffee, and two young men working at the movie house as well. These photographs surprise me. I expected only the wrinkled, leathery man in overalls, smiling a soft, heartland smile, or the heavy boy wearing a plain white T-shirt and think black sideburns, who perhaps works in his family's grocery store...

Author: By Daniel N. Halpern, | Title: Getting to the Heart Of America's Heartland: | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

...minor characters rarely remain in the background. An example is Ron Ritchell, as Walter the Waiter, sporting the imposing convex shirt front and the respectful familiarity of a family butler...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Shaw's World: Party On, George! | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...YOUR OWN damn house!" is a phrase that hasn't made it onto an Adams T-shirt for years. Responsibly engaged in aphorizing gay rights and the Nietzschean perspectivist void, complaints about immense overcrowding during lunches have been generally relegated to abusive grumblings and back-biting mutterings while waiting in long lines for Vegan Cheeseburgers...

Author: By Jonathan R. Funke, | Title: The [Taste] Bud Bowl | 2/18/1992 | See Source »

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