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...called Dr. Donna Benton, a gerontologist at the University of Southern California (no, Mom, I did not say anything about your slippery new bathroom tile, which, if it did come up, was mentioned only in the context of nonskid tub strips), and described how I had broached the subject...
...Benton laughed. "That was not a good way," she said in a tone that indicated I might benefit from a class she teaches to interested adults at U.S.C. called "Your Aging Parents." For one thing, "nursing home" is an antiquated term; her students learn that options range from long-term assisted-living facilities to short-term rehab to building a wheelchair ramp from driveway to door...
...What was that story we supposedly buried? According to news reports - and there were indeed news reports, both locally and on the national newswires - Davis Don Carpenter, 38, and Joshua Macave Brown, 22, from Benton County, Ark., participated in the rape and murder of Jesse Dirkhising, a 13-year-old from Prairie Grove. Brown strapped the boy to a mattress and stuffed underwear in his mouth, held in place with a bandanna, and repeatedly sodomized him while Carpenter watched. The boy died from asphyxiation...
...crime. It was repulsive, unconscionable - and the predictable pastime of perverted criminals. It was the kind of depraved act that happens with even more regularity against young females, and, indeed, if the victim had been a 13-year-old girl, the story would probably never have gotten beyond Benton County, much less Arkansas. (There is, of course, a double standard there.) Matthew Shepard died not because of an all-too-common sex crime, but because of prejudice...
Despite the edict, one room has already been booked. The guest? Former President George Bush. He was in Philly giving a speech and asked for the $1,400-a-night Presidential Suite at the Rittenhouse Hotel. Who could say no? Not David Benton, the tony hostelry's general manager, who has been taking "tongue-in-cheek flak" from his competitors ever since. But the rule that no rooms can be booked still stands, says Rendell, unless "the person asking to book the room is a former President whose son is the leading contender...