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SENTENCED. LARRY NEVERS, 53, and WALTER BUDZYN, 47, white former police officers; for their second-degree murder convictions in the beating death of black motorist Malice Green; in Detroit. Green died of injuries from hammer- like blows delivered by heavy metal flashlights. The two officers apologized to Green's family before Judge George Crockett handed down their punishments -- 12 to 25 years in prison for Nevers, who cannot be paroled before he has served at least nine years and eight months; and eight to 18 years for Budzyn, or a minimum of 6 1/2 years. The officers requested that they...
...types of starch and different types of fat have varying effects when they hit the body. But in terms of weight loss, low-fat diets and low-carb diets overall are equally effective (and, most of the time, neither will help you keep the weight off long-term), says Walter Willett, chair of the department of nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health. Here...
...however, Democrat Walter Mondale found himself in need of a miracle against incumbent President Ronald Reagan. Mondale, who joined Carter's ticket on the third day of the 1976 convention, broke with traditional timing by naming Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate a week before the party gathered in San Francisco. Mondale turned his one-week convention bounce into a two-week sensation - not that it mattered much. Reagan was re-elected in a landslide of historic proportions...
...childhood dream was to grow up to be Vice President. That way, I figured, I'd get to be in history books, but I wouldn't have to do any work. I am the one person who, even after my parents pointed him out on TV, aspired to become Walter Mondale. With voters asking for change, this might be my year. So I called a person who has vetted vice-presidential candidates for past nominees and asked him to vet me. Because of the sensitive nature of his work, he requested that he remain anonymous-and that I not give...
...Appearances matter - and remember to smile When Mandela was a poor law student in Johannesburg wearing his one threadbare suit, he was taken to see Walter Sisulu. Sisulu was a real estate agent and a young leader of the ANC. Mandela saw a sophisticated and successful black man whom he could emulate. Sisulu saw the future...