Word: russe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need to rewrite them. Until now, the problem with passing anything that would seriously change the way bribes flow through politics is that the politicians who would have to rewrite the laws have the greatest interest in not changing them. Arizona Republican John McCain and Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold have been hollering in the wilderness for two years, trying to persuade their fellow Senators to clean up the system. They would ban the unlimited soft-money contributions that both parties depend on (more than $250 million, a historic record, last year) and reward candidates who abide by voluntary spending limits...
Other people involved with the case agree with that assessment. Even the state's expert witness, psychiatrist Dr. Russ Voltin, who testified that on the basis of inconsistencies in her story he believed Kay was "malingering," has changed his position. He testified at a recent sentencing hearing that after further interviews with Kay he believes she suffers from post-traumatic-stress disorder, resulting from the years of abuse by her deceased husband. "I don't think this woman poses a threat," Dr. Voltin says. "[She] felt backed against the wall." It is too late to sway the court, however...
...Russ & Bo Show, a talk-radio program broadcast in the evening over WTKS-FM in Orlando, Florida, usually concerns itself with "women and beer," as one of the hosts, Russ Rollins, puts it. But on Sept. 25, the show addressed the subject of child abuse, commemorating the death exactly 14 years earlier of Ursula Sunshine Assaid. When she was five years old, Ursula was tortured and killed by her mother's boyfriend, Donald McDougall. The murder still causes bitterness in Orlando, and on the anniversary, the Russ & Bo Show devoted five hours to it. Between phone calls, Rollins graphically described...
...police, Barr, McDougall and 200 other inmates were in the prison yard after dinner, when Barr took the steel post used in a game of horseshoes and beat McDougall to death with it. Prison officials say they had put McDougall under protective custody on the night of the Russ & Bo broadcast because inmates who had been listening told them that a caller had offered a $1,000 reward to anyone who killed McDougall. After five days in custody, McDougall insisted on being released. That evening he was murdered...
...Russ and Bo are popular with prisoners around the region, and Barr may even have heard some calls they made to the show, speaking angrily about what should be done to McDougall. "We got calls from inmates that night," Rollins said. "They were describing what happens to child molesters in prison. They talked of a blanket party, where you throw a blanket over him and everybody beats the hell out of him. A certain prisoner said that should happen to [McDougall], and we were like, 'No, no, no. On to the next call...