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...they were victims of sexual assault. In a law-review article, Susan Estrich, Michael Dukakis' campaign manager, admitted she had been raped. So did actress Kelly McGillis, co-star of The Accused, a grimly realistic film based loosely on the 1983 gang rape of a woman in a New Bedford, Mass...
...first chair of the Afro-American Studies Department died this weekend after a long illness in the Bedford Veteran's Administration Hospital...
...give Hebrew the status of a national language. Lansky, who in 1979 was a graduate student in Yiddish literature at McGill University in Montreal, realized that more was at stake than the survival of the language as a spoken tongue. A native English speaker who was raised in New Bedford, Mass., and did not learn Yiddish until he studied Jewish history in college, Lansky clung to the language with a convert's passion -- in part, he says, because it represented a culture "on the cusp," not in the mainstream but on the periphery. The experiences and insights of Yiddish literature...
There has been a series of gruesome murders in the New Bedford area during the last few years. The main suspect in the case is a white male. Why don't the police feel compelled to stop and search every white man on the street? Why aren't white men suspects because of their dress or because they look "suspicious"? Why aren't their homes randomly searched because of the color of their skin? An acquaintance responded that "they should not use those policies because most whites are not capable of such violent crime...
Every few hours, when one of the local stations reruns It's a Wonderful Life, George Bailey reruns down the main street of Bedford Falls, wishing Merry Christmas to Old Man Potter and the Emporium and the Savings and Loan...