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<br>There are 8 messages totalling 254 lines in this issue.
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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br>  1. "Driving While Black" (3)
<br>  2. lounge chaise
<br>  3. dirty water dogs
<br>  4. Stooge
<br>  5. Site Revised!
<br>  6. RE>bogus anecdotes
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<br>Date:    Wed, 3 Jun 1998 04:33:49 EDT
<br>From:    "Barry A. Popik" <Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
<br>Subject: "Driving While Black"
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<br>DRIVING WHILE BLACK (DWB)
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<br>     The feature story in the Village Voice, 9 June 1998, is "Driving While
<br>Black:  Fear & Loathing on the Jersey Turnpike" by Peter Noel.  DWB is
<br>obviously a play on DWI (driving while intoxicated).  On page 39, Noel writes:
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<br>     Since 1989--and possibly long before that--state police have been
<br>"engaged in a program of racial targeting" on the New Jersey Turnpike,
<br>according to court documents in a pending case against 19 black men and women
<br>who, in a joint motion, claimed they were illegally targeted, stopped,
<br>searched, and arrested by troopers on the turnpike in Gloucester County
<br>between January 1989 and April 1991.  Allegedly, the troopers target blacks,
<br>especially those driving luxury cars such as BMWs, Mercedes-Benzes, and
<br>Lexuses.
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<br>     Deja News shows over 700 hits for "driving while black."  One of them is
<br>New Jersey Cop Watch #8 in misc.activism.progressive.  It quotes lawyer
<br>Johnnie L. Cochran with "These men were guilty of DWB.  Driving While Black."
<br>I don't know if Johnnie Cochran coined the phrase, but it wouldn't be
<br>surprising if he did.
<br>     For "Among the New Words."
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<br>MISC.
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<br>     After writing about "stooge" and "pansy" yesterday, I picked up New York
<br>Press, June 3-9, and found the headers "Iggy's a Stooge" on page 6 and "Pansy
<br>Division" on page 16.  They still won't give me a column, though.
<br>     In the New York Post, 2 June 1998, pg. 10, col. 5, columnist Cindy Adams
<br>writes:
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<br>     The _Monica Lewinsky_ saga:  You can indict a ham sandwich, said _Sol
<br>Wachtler_, the former New York state chief judge who experienced it himself.
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<br>     Unfortunately, the New York Post is not on Nexis.  However, the earliest
<br>Nexis citation for "ham sandwich" was from Wachtler (as previously discussed
<br>here).
<br>      I learned that Sol Wachtler was teaching at my law school, so I wrote to
<br>him about "ham sandwich."  I was also concerned that New York's Attorney
<br>General would lose the Ellis Island case (as posted here on the "First Monday
<br>in October"), so I sent him a copy of the special master's decision with my
<br>thoughts of what was probably going to go wrong.  I was interested in filing a
<br>"friend of the court" brief on New York's behalf.
<br>       Wachtler never replied.
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