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Some of Harvard's women athletes and coaches, who have been critical of University policy, said they were pleased with the Brown verdict yesterday...
...with the jurisdiction federal rather than local and the charges focused on civil rights, the burden on participants is greater. The result will be momentous, but the nation is really watching for what comes after. As defense attorney Ira Saltzman challenged jurors last week in a closing statement, "Your verdict might result in some . . . something. Can you withstand that pressure...
...that character polarized moviegoers. But the defense does not need to win acquittal; it is almost as effective to persuade enough to hang a jury. Outside the courtroom, Koon and Powell boasted of having won at least one female admirer on the jury. Many observers predicted a split verdict -- a slap at most for Briseno and Timothy Wind, something sterner for Koon and especially Powell, who struck the most blows. Powell's attorney Michael Stone tacitly acknowledged this scenario in a closing statement pleading that his client not be made a scapegoat...
...Latinos in Los Angeles were likely to support increases in spending to help the poor, only 61% of both whites and Asians agreed. The percentage of L.A. blacks who felt that American society owed their "ethnic group a better chance in life" rose from 55% before the Rodney King verdict to 75% afterward. "Even after the most devastating riot of this century, few minds were changed about how society works, and the disadvantaged felt ever more aggrieved," observed Lawrence Bobo, a sociology professor who conducted the survey...
Sharpton, who anticipates a bid for U.S. Senate in 1994, also addressed the Rodney King beating, calling last spring's Los Angeles riots in the aftermath of the King verdict, the "result of decades of negligence...