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...ludicrous," said her lawyer, C. Vernon Mason, "for the nation to see that the only person arrested in this case is the mother of a black rape victim. People should be outraged." First, however, they should be puzzled. When Mason delivered that line, Glenda Brawley had not been arrested. Moreover, Mason and two other radical Brawley advisers -- Attorney Alton Maddox Jr. and the Rev. Al Sharpton -- had contrived the events that turned her into a fugitive. Nothing could have made the trio happier than the spectacle of police charging into the Ebenezer Baptist Church to capture her. Sharpton...
...five years, Maddox, 43, and Mason, 42, have busied themselves in New York cases with controversial racial implications. They represented the black victims attacked by white youths in the notorious Howard Beach case, and Mason defended one of the black teenagers shot by Subway Vigilante Bernhard Goetz. At every opportunity, the two lawyers attempt to put the justice system itself on trial. Says Columbia University Law Professor Gerard E. Lynch: "Mason, whom I know, and Maddox, from what I've read, see the judicial system as fundamentally unjust and racist, and that's the key to their strategy and tactics...
...fellowships, funded by an anonymous donor, will allow two Costa Ricans to attend the K-School's Edward S. Mason Program in Public Policy and Management each year. The program was initiated in 1971 to educate leaders from developing and newly industrialized nations...
...Certainly our academic reputation attracts the premier athlete," Dartmouth Coach Brian Mason says. "It is a strong athlete, who is certainly committed to academics...
...Myself and other coaches are concerned with the other non-Ivy schools," Mason says. "The pool of players is getting smaller...