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...taken to a park, forced to his knees and fatally shot in the head and chest with a .410-gauge shotgun. Though the suspect remains at large, police believe Cruz was executed for trying to get out of a gang called the Vato Loco Boyz. Says Kent Bauman, an officer with the city's gang-intelligence unit: "People who aren't familiar with gangs think that these kids should just say no. But in the gang world, saying no can get you killed...
...some 90% before they were 19. Some critics believe the industry is deliberately capitalizing on adolescents' desires to be popular and attractive by attributing those qualities to smoking / in its $2.5 billion annual ad spending. "You certainly don't see ads featuring 65-year-olds," notes Karl Bauman, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health. Thomas Lauria of the Tobacco Institute, the industry's lobbying arm, disagrees: "Advertising doesn't get people to smoke. High school kids haven't seen ads for marijuana...
...expose Republican officeholders who really are homosexual. Few in Washington doubted that there were such officials, or that Frank, an acknowledged gay, would be able to name them. Republicans were already keenly aware of the ironic fates of two of their most prominent antigay voices, Maryland Congressman Robert Bauman and conservative fund-raiser Terry Dolan. Bauman's political career ended in 1980, when he was charged with soliciting a teenage boy for a paid sex act; Dolan died in 1986 of AIDS complications. Republicans backed off, so Frank did not carry out his threat, and he was at pains...
...less likely to sway a member of a board of supervisors or a city-planning committee faced with a high-priced lawyer in a three-piece suit who is threatening money damages." In the view of the real estate industry, the court's ruling tilts toward accountability. Explains Gus Bauman, litigation counsel for the National Association of Home Builders: "If a policeman walks up a dark alley with his gun drawn and wrongly shoots somebody, the city can be taken to court for damages. Why not zoning commissioners...
After Representative Robert Bauman, a Maryland Republican, was arrested in 1980 on charges of soliciting sex from a teenage male prostitute, his world fell apart. He lost his seat in Congress. His marriage broke up. His faith, Roman Catholicism, demanded a repentance that he did not feel. And his conservative colleagues disowned him while his former enemies on the left showed compassion. This realization, which inspired a newfound fervor for civil rights, forms the centerpiece of his disorganized but surprisingly poignant autobiography. Bauman's dilemma was that being gay was incompatible with political life. So he wed and started...