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...saga began in August 1993, when Adrian Guthrie and Simon Roberts, both 17, and raised in Klawock, ordered a pizza in Everett, Washington. When Domino's Pizza deliveryman Timothy Whittlesey showed up, Guthrie distracted him and Roberts hit him repeatedly with a baseball bat, leaving him, his assailant now admits, "kinda in convulsions." A bystander saw the teens removing Whittlesey's beeper, $40 and the pizza. The two Tlingits pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery. Superior Court Judge James Allendoerfer was expected to assign prison terms of up to 5 1/2 years...
...behest of Roberts' grandfather, he presented himself as a Tlingit tribal judge and suggested an exotic deal. If Allendoerfer bound the boys over to their tribe, they would undergo a traditional Tlingit punishment: banishment on remote, uninhabited islands, while contemplating their sins and hewing logs with which to build Whittlesey a house...
...Henry C. Whittlesey '88-'93 said political activism in his neighborhood led to his interest in local politics...
...There's the Alliance for Change created by my neighbor," Whittlesey said. "We talk about politics quite a bit, and Cambridge politics now mean a lot to me. I believe the election's about the budget and rent control...
Though some speak of a "community" of filmmakers today, Whittlesey says that the group is actually not that cohesive. "Most of the people I know tend to be very independent of each other," he says. "Most don't need or rely on people other than their own staff. Everybody kind of does their own thing...