Word: urbanely
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WASHINGTON -- New evidence presented by the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee at a hearing last week shows the U.S. government approved the sale to Iraq of biological agents that could have caused the mysterious GULF WAR SYNDROME that has afflicted thousands of U.S. troops. Buried within a 151-page report released at the hearing was the committee's first-time identification of 73 government-approved shipments of biological agents to Iraq from two U.S. companies during the five years that preceded the war. The report also states: "Some of the symptoms experienced by veterans suffering from Persian Gulf...
...courts refused to admit those two arguments, but attorney Bill Lane had better luck with a legal strategy called urban survival syndrome. His client, Daimion Osby, 18, of Fort Worth, Texas, was accosted last year by two men who in the past had threatened him over a gambling debt. Osby pulled out a .38- cal. pistol and shot the unarmed men to death. The case ended last month in a mistrial. Though 11 of the 12 jurors voted for conviction, the foreman opted for acquittal. He agreed with the argument that Osby shot Willie Brooks, 28, and Marcus Brooks...
...profile of the most dangerous men in America," says Jared Taylor, author of Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America and an expert witness for the defense. "His decision to use his weapon when attacked is more understandable, since his assailants fit this profile." Urban survival, said Lane, "is an extension of the law of self-defense to try to make the jury understand the point of view of our client...
...African-American critics say the urban-survival defense harks back to a time when blacks were seen as an indistinguishable whole: volatile, angry and presumed guilty. "((The Osby mistrial)) says 'these folks' can't help shooting each other," says the Rev. Ralph Waldo Emerson, a Fort Worth minister. "And it says to already nervous law-enforcement officials that they'd better be ready to draw when they stop someone in our community...
...time McCarthy was 58 and unknown outside a small mob of readers, quite a few of them critics, English professors or writers, who thought he was God. Being God didn't pay spit, though, and after five books and 30 years, McCarthy had his first agent, Amanda Urban, and a new editor, Gary Fisketjon, two of publishing's more glamorous figures. They impressed upon him the idea that a little publicity never hurt. "It was very simple," Fisketjon remembers. "He had no interest in it." They leaned on him. "He said, 'If you start making exceptions . . . ' He said, finally...