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Poor parental role models and a Southern tradition of violence are unseen but potent origins of crime in America, New York Times reporter Fox Butterfield '61 said last night...
...also disclosed that the White House kept hundreds of names on an "enemies list" and used tax investigations and other methods to harass them. But how could anyone prove such charges? That question received an astonishing answer a month later when a former White House official named Alexander Butterfield almost offhandedly told the committee that Nixon had installed voice-activated recorders that secretly taped all his White House conversations...
...Stanford feels it should not treat differently its gay and lesbian employees who cannot obtain a legal sanction of their enduring partnership, though their commitment to the partnership is analogous to that involved in contemporary marriage relationships," Barbara Butterfield, Stanford's vice president for faculty and staff services, said in a statement...
...Butterfield of the Times went awry, ironically, in reporting the Maitre plagiarism flap. After the story broke in the Boston Globe, he retold it in a next-day version, more elegantly written and with some fresh reporting. But Butterfield had no reason to doubt the accuracy of the quotes in the Globe. So instead of buying a videotape of Maitre's speech, as the article implied he had, he took the quicker route of plucking the words straight from the daily. He also borrowed the Globe's choices for side-by-side comparisons of passages by Maitre and PBS film...
Worse still, it identified the woman in an unflattering profile that seemed sure to raise questions about her character. The piece, written by the Times's Boston bureau chief Fox Butterfield and Mary Tabor, reported that the woman had mediocre grades in high school, a daughter born out of wedlock and 17 tickets for speeding and unsafe driving. It quoted an anonymous friend's assertion that the woman had "a little wild streak." For good measure, it detailed her mother's divorce and remarriage to a wealthy Midwestern industrialist...