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SETTLEMENT REACHED. By ABNER LOUIMA, 33, victim in a notorious case of police brutality in which he was sodomized with a broken broomstick in a Brooklyn-precinct bathroom in 1997; and the N.Y.P.D.; for $8.75 million. Louima's take will be tax-free, but his lawyers, including Johnnie Cochran, will share $3 million...
...what was perhaps the highlight of the event, guest speaker Abner Mason '85, the chief secretary of Massachusetts and a former student Foundation member, read a proclamation on behalf of Mass. Gov. Jane M. Swift declaring April 26 to henceforth be "Harvard Foundation Day" in Massachusetts...
...suave announcer is saying, "And what, in all this world, is more delightful than the gay wonderful laughter of little children?" Charlie Brown stands, sets his jaw, and kicks the radio set clear out of the room. Here was a comic strip hero, who, unlike his predecessors Li'l Abner, Dick Tracy, Joe Palooka or Beetle Bailey, could take the restrained fury of the '50s and translate it into a harbinger of '60s activism...
...full view of the police commander. He relishes the line "It's Giuliani time!" as he prepares for the film's final showdown--a reprise of a cruel reference to New York City's hard-line mayor that was famously and falsely attributed to the cop who tortured Abner Louima. If that isn't enough, contrast this Shaft's vulgar behavior toward a black woman in the film's only romantic sequence with the original Shaft's tender, though hardly exclusive relationship with his girlfriend. The new Shaft is neither a heroic knight errant nor a sex machine...
Instead, Sharpton took center stage as he discussed his personal experiences with the Diallo case, as well as other cases of police brutality in New York City, including the 1997 Abner Louima case and last month's shooting of Patrick Dorismond...