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...bunch of boys in Glen Ridge, N.J., all of them on the high school football team, think it is fun to shove baseball bats and broom handles into the vagina of a retarded girl, a girl with an I.Q. of 64? This isn't sex. It is violence. The Glen Ridge case hasn't been decided yet, but it doesn't really matter what is ultimately decided. What bothers me is why they think that...
Shoshana Nadou plummeted into the modern world in 1984, when she and 7,500 other Jews from remote villages in Ethiopia were secretly airlifted to Israel. "Everything looked so new and scary," she says. "One old woman smashed a television with a broom when she saw a picture of a fire." Now Nadou, 21, is firmly entrenched in the Israeli middle class. She and her husband Eyal, a construction worker, own a three-room apartment in the coastal city of Ashdod. Two of her brothers are in the Israeli army, and another recently graduated from college. "We've been transformed...
...White House office, like Gates, is compact and strategically located. Little larger than a broom closet, it flanks the West Wing entrance just across the lobby from the Oval Office. It is stuffed with color-coded folders marked SECRET, photos of Gates' family on backpacking trips, a Dictaphone, a big secure telephone and a regular White House phone console that often erupts with a steady, insistent ring. "Yes, sir," Gates answers. "Yes, Mr. President . . . I'll get right...
...Harvard men's baseball team got out the broom this weekend and swept away both Pennsylvania and Navy in doubleheaders Saturday and yesterday...
Dixon said that many in the city were receptive to her ideas as she spoke of the need to "clean house." In fact, she said, during a pre-election speech one listener responded, "don't take a broom, take a shovel...