"What was really going on the weeks immediately following is people were taking advantage of the opportunity to reconnect with communities and people, to share the experience of grief, " religious scholar William Lawrence said.

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In a recent study of pre- and post-Fed performance, economists George Selgin, William Lastrapes, and Lawrence H.

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Sir William also notes the view of Mr and Mrs Lawrence that "corruption and collusion" might explain the police failures.

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This, roughly, is what Sir William Macpherson's report on the death of Stephen Lawrence will tell Jack Straw next week.

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U-turn, issued a belated apology to the Lawrence family, and admitted in front of Sir William's inquiry that the force's internal inquiry had itself been flawed.

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