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Daughter of Controversial Poet [Amiri Baraka] Is Killed at Her Sister's Home
The New York Times ^ | 8/14/03 | ROBERT HANLEY

Posted on 08/13/2003 11:59:39 PM PDT by Pro-Bush

he 31-year-old daughter of Amiri Baraka, the poet, playwright and civil rights activist, and a friend were found murdered late Tuesday night in the home of another of Mr. Baraka's children in Piscataway, N.J., the authorities said yesterday.

The victims, Shani Baraka, and Rayshon Holmes, 30, were shot several times and were found in the family room of the house owned by Ms. Baraka's older sister, Wanda Pasha, the Middlesex County prosecutor, Bruce Kaplan, said.

He said detectives are searching for Ms. Pasha's estranged husband, James Coleman, for questioning in the double murder

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To: cinFLA
So, he didn't care if a woman was murdered because he disliked her father.

Between this type of comment and the French heat wave deaths, the Left can get a enough to keep them in business quoting Conservatives for months.
41 posted on 08/14/2003 12:28:27 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
So, he didn't care if a woman was murdered because he disliked her father.

Apparently you feel free to slur others with your false posts.

42 posted on 08/14/2003 12:42:11 PM PDT by cinFLA
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To: Pro-Bush
That ain't Baraka!

THIS IS BARAKA!

44 posted on 08/14/2003 2:31:22 PM PDT by xrp
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To: Pro-Bush
Sadly, children do not get to choose their parents. Equally sadly, they do get to choose their spouses and it looks like she did not choose wisely...

Maybe she confused passion with intellect?

45 posted on 08/14/2003 2:36:48 PM PDT by Dutchgirl (Another Friendly Floridian.)
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To: Consort
in the words of the immortal Ogden Nash

When met by a panther in a crouch
Prepare to say "Ouch!"
Or better yet,
When called by a panther...
Don't anther.

46 posted on 08/14/2003 2:39:08 PM PDT by Dutchgirl (Another Friendly Floridian.)
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