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...guilt free explanation and insist that the disorder involves heavy guilt, compulsive risk-taking and the desire to be caught. Says Jon E. Gudeman, psychiatrist at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center: "Some feel unworthy and feel a need to be punished." Irene Stiver, a psychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., says that many well-off patients in therapy admit to kleptomania, but only after several months of treatment. "It is the risk-taking," she says, "the excitement of getting away with something." Maurice Lipsedge, a consultant psychiatrist at Guy's Hospital in London, thinks shoplifting by women...
...wears a garland of cherry blossoms. Tourists do not generally see the black ghetto areas like Anacostia, where trimmed lawns and trees as stately as dowagers mix strangely with dour housing projects and graffiti-ridden seesaws. Nor are there many tours that stop at the corner of 14th and Belmont, where stained couches lie cut open on the sidewalk. Washington is 70% black. Not all is poor black; the "Gold Coast'1 out along 16th Street is largely black and upper middle class and stucco. But the city has more than its share of the ravages of poverty...
Although either McCann or Bachrach will surely win in the heavily Democratic district including Belmont, Watertown, Allston-Brighton and the western edge of West Cambridge, the outcome may be decided by the support given Republican candidate George C. Leslie...
...Head held high in the distinctive pacer's posture, his legs whipping a high-speed dressage. Niatross flew around the track in 1:49 1/5, smashing the world record for a pacing mile by 2 4/5 sec.-even bigger than the margin by which Secretariat shattered the Belmont Stakes record in his 31-length victory in the final leg of the 1973 Thoroughbred Triple Crown...
...Belmont and the Concourse are just two communities beyond the wasteland of Charlotte Street. But they shatter a common misperception of the South Bronx as a community without hope. The South Bronx is more than just, as Ronald Reagan describes it, "A bombed out London after the war." There's life in the South Bronx, but it lies beyond Charlotte Street...