Word: talled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middlesex District Courthouse is tall, grey, grim. Inside, everything looks as if it's covered with a layer of grit...
...tall, with striking good looks and undeniable stage presence and, in her judicial robes, appears as if she just walked off the set of L.A. Law. The procedures and laws she deals with may not be much different than what confronted her male predecessors, but the fact remains: her presence is remarkable...
...Pitts who led the way. A tall, warm welcome of a man, Pitts, 46, knew the neighborhood as no outsider could. He had grown up there, walked its streets as a city cop and volunteered in a local youth service agency. Over the years he had come to understand that all too often the poor in the inner cities live more like inmates than citizens. Liberty City had health clinics and community centers and every kind of social service agency. But it had no supermarket for 60,000 residents, and no new family housing had been built in 20 years...
...sits on a bench off the Bowery, glazed eyes staring into a void, sipping on a tall can of Bud enclosed in a brown paper bag. "Twelve dollars and 50 cents," he mutters. "Twelve dollars and 50 cents." It is the sum total of one man's life -- the amount he says he has been trying to borrow from his family in Detroit to ensure his burial in potter's field, and to escape from the death beyond death: "They send you to medical school and cut you up into little pieces -- that...
...cacao farm a decade ago, the landowner could have done what other besieged farmers have | done. He might easily have picked up an ax and begun cutting down more tropical rain forest around his land on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. He could have sold the timber from the tall laurel trees that shade the cacao bushes, then burned the dense virgin forest on the hill behind his farm. Then Bryant, like so many financially strapped small farmers in Latin America, could have sown pasture and sold the land to a cattle rancher. Within three or four years, one more...