Word: carson
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...historian's dream -- a major discovery about an important person -- is more of a nightmare for Stanford University professor Clayborne Carson. An admirer of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and an expert on black America, Carson was picked by King's widow Coretta to head the team that is compiling the civil rights leader's papers. Two years ago, Carson's staff came upon unsettling signs of plagiarism...
...really hurt that through innuendos they're basically calling me a liar," Carson said. Carson said he was not in attendance at Monday's meeting because the council changed locations and he was unable to locate the new site...
...Carson said that he received a call Thursday night from Beys, who asked him to submit a statement of potential income separate from the original grant application. Carson added that he submitted the form detailing their plans for a T-shirt sale and direct mail fundraising...
...think it's a very poor decision," said Lawrence S. Carson '93, organizational director for Harvard-Radcliffe Democrats. "We're very upset. We did not misrepresent them...
...course, every watcher of Carson or Letterman has seen male clowns air the same kind of grievance; provoking mirth for a living has never been a laughing matter. The difference today is in who does the complaining. Observes Poundstone: "A comic was telling me the other day that she thought she had started too late in life. I thought, Geez, this is one of the few areas where that doesn't mean a thing anymore. This has become an ageless, genderless job." Funny she should say that. This is the year that Paula Poundstone becomes 31, and Henny Youngman turned...