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...Kentucky have had ten years to realize that Martha Layne Collins is a woman," the candidate said, and her experience in state government has probably been the most important factor in dispelling any lingering prejudice. She has worked her way up through local and state offices, spending time as clerk of the Court of Appeals for Shelby County before winning election to statewide office. Further, because of Gov. Brown's travels and illness after triple bypass surgery this summer, she has served as acting governor for almost 500 days, over a quarter of Brown's four years as governor. During...
Simenon was an eager refugee from his drab upbringing as the son of an insurance clerk in Liège, Belgium. He took on Paris in the 1920s with a sharp eye for a quick score, promoting himself as a pulp prodigy and becoming one of Josephine Baker's lovers. His invention of Maigret in 1930 soon brought him vast wealth, international celebrity and the freedom to pursue a more complete, often cruel self-absorption. To those close to him he was imperious and burdensome. His relentless couplings, conjugal and otherwise, were by his own account often starkly physical...
...shock of resettlement. Several weeks after stepping off a crowded fishing boat in Key West, Teresita Hernández, 24, came to Chicago under the sponsorship of her uncle. "At the beginning it was hard for me," she admits. But with the money she earns as a part-time clerk, Hernández has been able to rent a small studio apartment, buy a serviceable used car and enroll in classes at Northeastern Illinois University. Her goal: to become a pharmacist...
Johns, 32, a convicted rapist, worked by day as a desk clerk in a retirement hotel and as a leader of a young-adults group at his church. By night, he prowled the streets of a middle-class neighborhood of two-story frame and brick houses on the edge of Hollywood. Police believe he may have raped as many as 100 women, ranging in age from 24 to 71, living in a ten-block radius. One of his victims, Sandra Trine, 37, died when she choked on her own vomit during the rape. On Aug. 11, after pleading guilty...
Some men rape as a way of expressing anger, and often these rapes include beatings. Fred, a slab of a man with a bushy beard and bizarrely tattooed arms, went to a convenience store one night for a pack of cigarettes, and the female clerk told him she had just closed up. Furious, he savagely attacked her. "The rape was just a reaction that took place so fast I didn't know it was happening," he said...