Word: case
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...most fans the formal rationale for the commissioner's decision was as irrelevant as the details of the government's tax case against Al Capone. What mattered was that Steinbrenner's 17-season reign of terror was finally over, and the Yankees were liberated from the egomaniacal whirl of managerial musical chairs, maladroit trades and the public castigation of star players and pitching coaches alike...
Chris Queen, the summer school's dean ofstudents, said last week that the University wouldtake no further steps in the case until it hearsfrom the district attorney's office...
...Usually, the president will not dissolve any government unless it has been beaten at the polls," Frye said. "In this case, apparently the president was influenced by either the opposition or, more likely, the military...
...case began in 1983 when the mother of one of the children wrote police a letter accusing Buckey of sexually molesting her 2 1/2-year-old son. Not long after, police set off a panic among parents by sending letters to 200 of them stating that authorities were investigating charges of sodomy at the preschool. After videotaped interviews were conducted with 400 children, investigators decided that 369 had been abused. Later, the mother whose claims had initiated the case complained to prosecutors that someone had sodomized her dog and that her estranged husband and an AWOL Marine were also abusing...
...case has caused many to take a second look at the methods for investigating allegations of child abuse. It spurred a national debate about appropriate methods for eliciting testimony from children. It has left many of the children and their parents bitter. And it put Ray Buckey in jail for five years without a conviction. "I don't think anybody won in the McMartin case," Buckey says now. But quite a few people lost...