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...overshadow the far more consequential questions of child abuse. Wendy Murphy is a lawyer and the founder and director of the Victim Advocacy & Research Group in Boston, and it was her client, who she says is now a 45-year-old father and "a very respectable, responsible, highly regarded citizen," who brought the allegation against Father Spagnolia. She feels the Lowell priest's campaign has, if anything, damaged the search for justice. "By making himself the poster boy for false accusations, he did a great disservice to the very course he professed to be forwarding," she said Friday after Father...
...expanding on his grave-digging business. The Marsh family was among the most prominent of the few African-American families in the area. Ray's wife Clara--known as "Preacher Clara"--taught in public schools for more than 30 years. In 1995 she was selected as Walker County's Citizen of the Year. Incredibly, Ray even ran for county coroner in 1992. (He lost.) When he became ill with heart disease in the mid-1990s, Brent returned home from the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, where he played football and was close to graduating with a business degree. A cousin...
...BELTWAY BOOKS: On May 13, Simon & Schuster will publish "Citizen McCain" by Elizabeth Drew. Kirkus gives the book a thumbs up. "Washington insider and accomplished journalist Drew provides a fly-on-the-wall portrait of the congressional maverick and his struggle to reform campaign-finance laws...Drew clearly approves of McCain, though never so much as to allow partisanship to get in the way of her usual careful reporting. A useful expos? of how things get done - and buried - in Washington...
Richard's parents divorced when he was 11. He left school at 16, as soon as he legally could. By then he had drifted into the south London world of street crime and car theft. At 17, after mugging a senior citizen, he was jailed for the first time. In the next few years, Richard was in and out of prison, and when he bumped into his father in a shopping mall seven or eight years ago, he seemed depressed and downhearted. "He was born here in Britain, like I was," says Robin. "It was distressing to be told things...
...Townsend, wows the kids with his rock-star act, the ancient Queen Akasha waits to be roused from her slumber. Waits for most of the movie: Akasha-Aaliyah doesn't show up until the last third, by which time she has received a bigger buildup than the sled in Citizen Kane...