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Childhood sexual abuse is a beast in many of these books. In Richard Hoffman's spare, poignant Half the House (Harcourt Brace; 175 pages; $20), it sneaks in almost laconically after the author has given us a searing picture of his blue-collar family in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the 1950s, with a violent but caring father and two brothers who are terminally ill. Hazy reverence for the Catholic saints is counterpointed with hazy submission to the sadistic coach who lures the author, then age 10, to his house with pornography and sodomizes him: "Induced, premature, with a hunger urgent...
...Brace yourself, Sarah!" Malcolm shouted. "It's going...
...killers and third-generation welfare families. That is not quite the Hunts Point I was raised in, although it was hardly elm trees and picket fences. We kept our doors and windows locked. I remember a steel rod running from the back of our front door to a brace on the floor so that no one could push in the door. Burglaries were common. Drug use was on the rise. Yet crime and violence in those days did not begin to suggest the social breakdown depicted in Fort Apache. That was yet to come...
Ferrara is back at the reins of the Crimson offense this season, though, by his own admission, he is a step slower. A black, metal and plastic brace, padded in both the back and front, announces the reconstructive anterior cruciate ligament surgery and months of rehab about which the Crimson signal-caller now seems unfazed...
...involvement." Earlier today, Senators questioned Secret Service agent Henry O'Neill, who had vivid recollections of Williams, the night Foster died, "carrying, in her arms and her hands what I would describe as file folders. She walked past me . . . and started to enter her office, and she had to brace the folders on her arms against a cabinet. She came out a few moments later and locked her office." ButWilliams has denied removing anything from Foster's office that night,and the White House says she has passed two lie detector tests...