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...guards hitting and kicking the 14-year-old, Martin Lee Anderson, and holding their hands over his mouth for as long as five minutes at a time, while the nurse stood by and watched. The jury seemed persuaded by the first and widely discredited autopsy report that blamed the boy's death on a sickle-cell condition, even though a second autopsy ordered by the state had ruled Anderson died from suffocation (the Justice Department has since announced it will investigate whether federal civil rights violations charges should be brought in the case). "It's wrong!" Anderson's mother, Gina...
Creativity, Capecchi once said, comes from "the abrasive juxtaposition" of life experiences. His old life and new one certainly rubbed each other raw. Some teachers wrote off the feral boy who had never set foot in a school and spoke no English; but others gave him paints and told him to make murals to communicate. One day he was beating up the other third-graders, since that was what he knew how to do. And soon he was beating up older kids on behalf of his peers. "That gave me a position," he says, "some social standing...
There was a time when the Backstreet Boys could stand in an airport crooning about the way in which they wanted it, and I was willing to give it to them. But every time Nick Carter reaches his hand out to me in the video for their new single, “Inconsolable,” I don’t grasp wildly at the air in front of me to squeeze it. Instead, I back away warily from the middle-aged man on my TV screen. The video begins with a heavy-set Carter sprawled out on the beach...
...Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, do we have a candid, personal portrait of the writer, with little of the Victorian reserve of his memoirs. Most of the nearly 1,000 letters are to his beloved mother, Mary Doyle, beginning in 1867, when he was an 8-year-old boy at a Jesuit boarding school, and continuing until 1920, when Mary died. The book's editors - two Conan Doyle scholars and the author's great-nephew - also provide plenty of background material, rare drawings and photographs, and relevant excerpts from Conan Doyle's other works, making this the most comprehensive...
...Graeme has helped put on a human face, that of a young boy, representing the needs of children and families across this nation. We are a hard working family that has stepped forward to support SCHIP. Mudslinging from the fringe has now been directed at the messenger. To be smeared all over the Internet and receive nasty e-mail - my family does not deserve this retribution. It is both shameful and pathetic...