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...Labor strongholds to the Tory enclaves of suburbia. Parliamentary districts were redrawn for last week's election to reflect that migration, and the Tories clearly gained. "Social changes are taking place which make the Conservatives the party of the future and Labor the party of the past," says Robert Waller, author of The Almanac of British Politics. "Labor has been reduced to the party of the minorities...
...November 1982 to find a male in their Texas home, wearing a cowboy hat and bandana over half of his face. The man sexually assaulted the 12-year-old boy. Later that day, the victim thought he heard the voice of the assailant, and when he turned around, saw Waller, who lived in his apartment building. Waller was convicted of aggravated sexual abuse and sentenced to 30 years...
...Exoneration: In 2006, 23 years after his conviction, some of the DNA from a rape kit that had never been tested was found not to belong to Waller. A judge vacated his conviction and Gov. Rick Perry officially pardoned him on March 9, 2007. He was the 200th person the Innocence Project exonerated. "I want to get married again," he told CNN. "I want a wife and I want a baby and I'll probably will name her Grace... If I have a boy, I may name him Mercy...
...secret is and the answer is simple: "I just listen. And relax." As for what's next, nobody's sure. A documentary filmmaker has been following him around for months, and a movie studio has floated the idea of making a biopic. But as Paravicini starts in on Fats Waller's Ain't Misbehavin', he's oblivious to anything beyond the joy of this moment. Rocking back and forth, a sideways smile on his face, he throws in a cascading scale here, a sneaky chord there, taking the tune as far out as he can before pulling it back. Maybe...
...JAMES WALLER, who was exonerated after his 1982 conviction for raping a boy was overturned due to DNA evidence--the 12th such case in Dallas County, Texas, since 2001--saying he is not angry about what happened...