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...troubling thing is [sexual violence] hasbeen increasing in the past three years inColumbia, Barnard and NYU campuses," Fairsteinsaid. About 90 percent of these cases involvedrugs and alcohol, she said
Once back in prison, Mandela bombarded Coetsee with letters urging contacts between the two sides, which had never officially talked to each other. A secret committee was set up including Coetsee, Mandela and Niel Barnard, the head of South Africa's intelligence service. Mandela pressed for a meeting with South Africa's President, P.W. Botha, known as the Great Crocodile for his blustery temper. An off-the-record courtesy call was finally arranged in 1989. So anxious was Barnard, the intelligence chief, about the meeting that seconds before the two men were to shake hands, he knelt down...
...cases of prior abuse, premeditation of the sort Smith is accused of is atypical. Says Suzanne Barnard, a social worker with the $ children's division of the American Humane Association: "I don't think most parents who murder children wake up in the morning and say, 'This is the day I'm going to kill my kids.' " Dewey Cornell, a clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia, says, "Usually one thing leads to another, and the problem escalates to the point where eventually the person caves in under the pressure and stress...
...other Americans. For every infant murdered, they say, there is another saved by the intervention of community health professionals and protective-services workers. Says Cornell: "The major message from this is to try to appreciate how important it is to educate people and help them to become better parents." Barnard remembers meeting with a woman in Colorado who had killed her infant child. "She had substance-abuse and mental-illness problems. Her husband had left. She felt that she had no future and that the child had no future. I asked if she knew about all the ways she could...
...they entertain moms and their kids, teens and their older, upwardly mobile sibs, these stores also impress the industry analysts. Says Kurt Barnard, publisher of Barnard's Retail Marketing Report: "Disney and Warner are taking advantage of characters that America has grown up with, that have endeared themselves to the American family for generations. It is a very powerful sales point: leveraging the fame and the hallowed position that these characters occupy in the American home...