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...witnesses, Sharpton, Maddox and Mason subsequently publicized a series of outlandish conspiracy theories, implicating the Ku Klux Klan, the Irish Republican Army, the Mafia and elected officials of Duchess County, NY in the crime. They viciously slandered public officials--including Attorney General Abrams, whom they branded a sexual pervert and compared to Adolf Hitler...

Author: By David J. Andorsky, | Title: Reinventing Al Sharpton | 2/11/1994 | See Source »

Actors who have been good all along -- Tuck Milligan as a sharecropper who uses the Civil War to settle some personal scores and later as a roving union organizer, Gregory Itzin as two characters who use the law to pervert justice -- are suddenly much better. Actresses who had not made much of an impression now excel: Lillian Garrett-Groag as a Indian captive, part wife and part slave; Katherine Hiler as two hillbilly girls and, especially, Jeanne Paulsen as the woman whose world was destroyed by mining and who finds salvation in spontaneous political courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Dark History | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...Sammy Kim: "It doesn't matter if he does it or not, it's just that he advocates having sex with little boys. It's . . . it's his mind." A Bronx Science student's mother, who wishes to be identified only as Kate, is more direct: "He's a pervert. It's like putting a pyromaniac to work in a gas station. I think at some point, with certain things, a line has to be drawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the Love of Kids | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

Others critical of the DeBoers note that the couple knew early on that the adoption was in jeopardy -- and by continuing to fight while keeping custody of Jessica, says psychotherapist Annette Baran, who specializes in adoption issues, "they've managed to pervert the whole issue of best interests of the child. It's time that people realized that adoption is for children, not infertile adults." Jan DeBoer recoils at such charges. "The Schmidts accuse us of delaying the proceedings to help ourselves," he says. "But I want Jessi to know the truth -- that we only appealed for her own protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: In Whose Best Interest? | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

...Harvard Students Agencies, Inc., I write to you in response to your February 5th front-page story "HSA's Let's Go Guides Spin Off As For-Profit Co." The Crimson's portrayal of HSA, Inc., composed by Joe Matthews '95, is rife with inaccuracies and distortions which pervert the innocent incorporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HSA Article Distorted Facts | 2/11/1992 | See Source »

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