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...girl, identified only as Azam in the Iranian press, reportedly dated the Marine before the U.S. embassy was seized by militants last Nov. 4 (he was not identified; nine Marines are held hostage). According to the Iranian attorney general's office, her family filed a seduction complaint against him about five months ago, but the subsequent embassy takeover blocked legal action because the militants holding the Marine refused to cooperate with civil authorities...
...growing fear among many men that they are not competent enough to survive the economic rollercoaster. Detroit Psychiatrist Victor Cruz says that it is not unusual for a working man, after being laid off for six months, to seek help for sexual impotence. Says Cruz: "The initial complaint takes the form of sexual insecurity, but the problem is often more related to the lack of being able to provide financially for a wife or girlfriend...
There have been many explanations for this familiar complaint, among them the stifling class lines and Victorian morality that caused some of the Queen's subjects to seek freedom in the backwaters of the Empire. This was not entirely the case with Thesiger. Born in Addis Ababa, eldest son of Britain's Minister to Ethiopia, his formative memories were of camels, tents, festooned warriors and "sitting beside my father in the twilight above a gorge, hoping he would get a shot at a leopard." At age seven, Thesiger accompanied his father to Somaliland, where the British were fighting...
...Kennedy's clients are criminals, they are also Higgins' liveliest creations. Take Cadillac Teddy, a professional car thief who specializes in Cadillacs. "Your Porsche, your Corvette, your Jaguar, your Mercedes, I can get you them, but I'm not used to them, you know?" His current complaint: a state trooper has eaten his driver's license. Or an aristocratic homosexual cruiser who solicits a cop. Or a kid so simple that he sets himself up for a drug rap. Kennedy's friends and co-workers are equally indelible: a colleague with whom he shares...
...many older people wind up feeling that society would prefer them out of sight. And the increasing segregation of senior citizens in homogeneous retirement towns and nursing homes hints that this may often be true. Another hint can be found in the fact that depression is the commonest medical complaint of the obviously...