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Between the book reviews and the science notes, the third gang rape of the past two months. This one occurred in the Charlestown section of Boston, where seven young men have been charged with kidnaping a 17-year-old girl and raping her repeatedly for seven hours in an apartment belonging to one of the men. The incident followed the more widely publicized attack in New Bedford, Mass., some weeks earlier, in which four men raped and tormented a woman for two hours on a pool table in Big Dan's bar, while onlookers cheered. That one was preceded...
Gang rape is war. It is the war of men against women for reasons easy to guess at, or for no reasons whatever, for the sheer mindless display of physical mastery of the stronger over the weaker. In the wake of the reports from Charlestown, New Bedford and the University of Pennsylvania, conjectures are bound to arise about the frustration of contemporary man at the growing independence of women, and there may be some truth to that. But men have never needed excuses to commit rape in gangs. The Japanese in China, the Russians in Germany, the Pakistanis in Bangladesh...
...Suffolk County sheriff combines excellent fundraising and organizational skills with a flamboyant campaigning style--his vice-grip handshake is now legendary. Kearney began his political career as a service coordinator at White's East Boston Little City Hall and served as a state representative for East Boston and Charlestown between 1974 and 1977 before his appointment to his present post...
Ball, a fairly well-known sculptor in his day, and a contemporary of Daniel Chester French (of John Harvard fame), was born in Charlestown. Mass. in 1819. At the age of 35 he joined the growing circle of expatriated American artists studying and working in Florence. Ball specialized in portrait statuary and commissioned monuments on a grand scale, "few of which are aesthetically interesting," notes art historian Milton Brown. Ball's most famous works proved to be the two copies of the Emancipation group: the other one is in Washington. D.C. "More than any Lincoln memorial of the time...
...with some memorable nights on the job. On Friday night, August 13, only four buildings were torched--a total of $100,000 in damage, but a total of 32 alarms went off around town, and firemen used every available piece of equipment, including the city's sole fire boat. Charlestown's Engine 50 spent one Saturday night rushing to multiple-alarmers, first two miles to South Boston, then four miles from there to Jamaica Plain, then finally back to Charles town. As for the arson investigators. "We're getting there after the fact." McCarthy admits. "Two or three alarms have...