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Barry is an unlikely choice as a personnel expert. Eleven of his former aides have gone to the slammer for various crimes, including stealing city funds. A dozen more have departed under a cloud. The District's municipal work force of 47,000 is among the nation's most oversize and inefficient. Its most egregious shortcoming is the shoddy service it provides to poor and working- class blacks, who constitute Barry's most solid base of political support...
...least a dozen California inmates who he claimed confessed their guilt to him. With information he provided, authorities have unearthed the bodies of murder victims and prosecuted a prison gang leader for murder. In exchange, lawmen accorded him special privileges, including early release, during his frequent returns to the slammer. "Every time I come in here," White boasts, "I inform and get back...
...case of People v. Goldilocks, San Francisco Attorney Cherie Harpell had to use ten words or less to convince a jury that a young defendant should be sent to the slammer for breaking into the house of the Three Bears. "Juvenile delinquent caught," she began forcefully. "Rampaged family home," she continued, looking gravely into the eyes of a juror. Then she demanded, "Must pay." The performance was part of an exercise in how to communicate and persuade at a recent workshop run by Applied Theater Techniques, a Los Angeles-based group that teaches acting skills to attorneys...
...have failed to notice that for all the furor they have raised, the Brawley advisers have hardly helped solve whatever crimes were committed against Tawana Brawley. Wrote New York Daily News Columnist Bob Herbert, who is black: "If Robert Abrams or anybody else wants to send somebody to the slammer for contempt of court, Glenda Brawley has three high-profile advisers who more than qualify...
Harvard had erupted for seven runs in the third inning against loser Jim Duchesneau on Allen's slammer and Decareau's three-run double, and had reached reliever Tom Connors for another three runs in the fifth to take a commanding 12-1 lead into the sixth. Cody Weston came on to relieve Hope and close down Brown the rest...