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...owners displaying their weapons and declaring, "I'm the N.R.A." But who really is the N.R.A. ? Though the group may boast its share of heavyset hunters with rifle racks in their pickups, typical members come from a more domesticated breed: white suburban men -- only 3% are women -- somewhat more affluent and better educated than the American norm. The dues-paying roster includes actor Charlton Heston, writer-editor Michael Korda and actor Jerry Mathers, the Beaver of sitcom fame...
...acute paranoid schizophrenic; she died of alcohol-related liver disease in 1986. But by then the prosecution no longer needed her. The police had written to 200 parents stating that the authorities were investigating oral sex and sodomy at the McMartin school. To the parents of affluent Manhattan Beach who thought the McMartin school was the first step on the road to Stanford, this was a bombshell. They soon had fantastic stories to tell after their children were interviewed by Kee MacFarlane, an administrator turned therapist at Children's Institute International...
Because he was white and affluent, Charles Stuart nearly got away with killing his pregnant wife. -- Why the press canonizes certain victims. -- The racial hysteria Stuart ignited fuels black fears that whites are plotting genocide...
...press prefers its victims to be affluent and white. But notable exceptions arise. When blacks or Latinos are cast in the starring role, they are generally portrayed as somehow different from others of their race -- more gifted, harder working, more attractive, somehow more noble. The implication is that unlike most of their ethnic cohorts, they are individuals worthy of our pity or concern. Tom Wolfe parodied this syndrome in The Bonfire of the Vanities, when he described reporter Peter Fallow pumping an English teacher for details about a black youth struck by a car. After ascertaining that the young...
Technology has made possible these multiple roles, vastly expanding what libraries can offer and eliminating many economic disparities. Through the magic of computers, a branch located in the poorest section of town can provide the same information available in branches in affluent neighborhoods. A library in Philadelphia can retrieve data housed in far-off Los Angeles. "We're beginning to define the library beyond a physical place," says Michael Eisenberg, associate professor of information studies at Syracuse University. "When you think of it that way, where does the library end?" It doesn...