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Today, the dirty secrets are no longer being kept. Victims of private violence are talking?to police, prosecutors, counselors, friends, one another?and U.S. society is trying to help. Private violence is becoming less private. Thus, while reports of child abuse in Florida, for example, rose from 35,301 in...
There is clearly a class bias against the poor in the reporting of child-abuse cases. Doctors, teachers and police are less likely to accuse affluent families of beating or molesting their children even when the evidence is clear. Clinics and social-welfare agencies deal more frequently with the poor...
In his collaborations with George, and with a host of other composers including Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Kurt Weill and Vernon Duke, Ira could write lyrics that appeared clumsy or cliched; he could skip or cram syllables into a melodic line. But no lyricist used slang phrases earlier or as...
In a new book about Rose Bird, Clark's controversial colleague on the state supreme court, Journalist Betty Medsger charges, among other things, that Clark depended on his staff so heavily that he never did original work on his opinions during his two years on the court of appeals...
DIED. Harry James, 67, sweet and fiery trumpeter and enduring Big Band leader; of lymphatic cancer; in Las Vegas. The son of a circus bandmaster and a trapeze artist, James joined Benny Goodman's sizzling swing-era trumpet section in 1937. Two years later, after forming his own band...