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...excuse indeed. And this case is not an isolated incident. New York residents still remember the heinous torture of Abner Lounima, who, while handcuffed, was sodomized with a plunger by NYPD officers only a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO EXCUSES | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...January, Broadway Books will be publishing The Black Parenting Book: Caring for Our Children in the First Five Years by Dr. Anne C. Beal, Linda Villarosa and Allison Abner. Besides offering parents standard child-care advice, the book addresses special concerns in the black community, such as dealing with racism and raising a child with self-esteem, as well as common health problems like lactose intolerance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Parenting Books | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...Abner Doubleday had wanted the game to move quickly, he would have put a clock in the game; after two hours, whoever was ahead would win." Fair enough, Chuck. Nobody wants to mess with the game's rhythm. A clock? Never. A calendar would be more like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midnight Baseball | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...Abner Stoltzfus began taking on work as a roofer in his late teens, often traveling outside his home in Lancaster County, Penn., to rustle up some spare cash. Before long he ran into a member of the Pagans motorcycle gang who offered him some cocaine on the job. Soon Stoltzfus was hooked, money was running low, and he began pushing drugs to feed his habit. "I don't think there was much analysis behind his actions," his lawyer, John Pyfer Jr., told TIME. "I think it just happened, the way it could happen to your child or mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amiss Among The Amish | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

...Lancaster County, home to 20,000 Amish who belong to the conservative old order, Stoltzfus, now 24, and Abner King Stoltzfus, 23, who bears no relation to him, were charged with distributing "multiple kilograms" of cocaine and methamphetamine at town dances from 1993 to 1997. And just in case that wasn't enough of a jolt for a public that knows the Amish mostly through the movie Witness, the two Stoltzfuses' names were read in tandem with eight members of the Pagans, including "Twisted" and "Fat Head." Another Amish youth, underage and identified only by the initials C.S., was cited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amiss Among The Amish | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

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