Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thomas J. Livelli '99, a Crimson Key guide, asserts that "The facts that you are supposed to deliver aren't fictional. How many facts do I make fictional might be another issue." What difference, though, does it really make? How much of the information makes an impression on the tourist's mind...
...right, an honest mistake, but surely an experienced tourist like Beverly Sojehn of New York City would have paid more attention to her Key tour guide, "The three lies are that it is not really John Harvard, he wasn't the founder and it was actually founded in 1763," Sojehn said when asked...
Best-selling novelist Carl Hiaasen wrote those words, but you won't find them in yarns like Tourist Season or Strip Tease. Instead, Hiaasen was describing the real-life mayor of Miami in his newspaper column last month. "Mayor Loco," Hiaasen calls...
Stafford-Smith says Shareef was convicted and sentenced to death for political and racial reasons. "There's a crime in the French Quarter, a big tourist area," he says. "A white guy is murdered by three people identified as black. You're dealing with serious pressure...Then James Rowell gets busted for a whole slew of robberies. My read is, Rowell led them to Shareef. This is a classic case, where the snitch provides the first lead. When Rowell fingers Shareef, the cops say, 'Hey, we've got our guy.' They come to Connie Babin...
...Absent Evidence. No physical evidence links Cousin to the crime--no fibers, no blood, no weapon, nothing. Prosecutors say he became a suspect when he was identified by Babin in a "photo lineup." A tourist and a restaurant worker were said to have made, as prosecutors put it, tentative identifications. "A tentative identification is the equivalent of a partial pregnancy," says Stafford-Smith. "There is no such thing." Stafford-Smith charges that Babin and the other "tentative" witnesses were coached by detectives to identify Cousin in the photo lineup...