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...threatening graffito discovered late January on a concrete wall along Hong Kong's Bowen Road is the latest twist in a bizarre string of poisonings that has terrorized the city for 13 years. The leafy pedestrian walk running through the affluent Mid-Levels neighborhood is the epicenter of a spree that has claimed over 20 dead and made at least 100 seriously ill. Despite community uproar, heightened police patrols and the aid of an international expert, the killer's trail remains cold. A key reason, say critics, is that the victims are dogs...
While My Generation, launched in February 2001, casts a net for everyone 44 to 55, More aims specifically at affluent, educated women, 40 to 60. "Most magazines have a primary baby-boomer audience," says More's editor in chief, Myrna Blyth, 62, who holds the same title at Meredith's Ladies' Home Journal. "What makes More different is that we reflect, report and celebrate this woman on every page." In fact, almost the only criticism you'll find in the More letters column comes from women who think models like Christie Brinkley, 47, are too girlish to be featured...
...union’s president recently claimed that the federal indictment of Boston Police Department (BPD) Sgt. Harry A. Byrne Jr. on civil rights charges was motivated by the status of the alleged victim, Garett D. Trombly ’03, as a white, affluent Harvard student. We disagree. Byrne was indicted because he allegedly broke Trombly’s jaw while the Harvard junior was in police custody for public drinking and other minor charges, charges that were later dropped...
...federation seriously questions why a wealthy, affluent Harvard student who alleges improper use of force by a Boston police sergeant is able to obtain a federal civil rights indictment when, in almost every other instance, particularly when such allegations involve people of color or those not privileged, such matters are turned over to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office for prosecution,” union president Joseph G. Gillespie said in the statement...
...reviewing the allegations against Byrne, the press release referred to Trombly as “a white, affluent Harvard student who was publicly drinking and who had spat on Sergeant Byrne...