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...were played by girls who really were twelve?Brooke Shields in Louis Malle's misty legend of 1917 New Orleans, Pretty Baby, and Jodie Foster in Martin Scorsese's contemporary shocker, Taxi Driver. Each movie caused a mild outcry, but the general reaction was nervous acceptance. The phenomenon they dealt with was real enough; as Malle took to pointing out, you can hire a twelve-year-old whore any night on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue...
Carter's administration implicitly admitted the error of the Somoza reign in its close negotiations with opposition Sandinistas and its insistence that Somoza and Urcuyo immediately hand over control of the country. In its obsequious eagerness to establish relations with the rising star of the Sandinistas, the U.S. dealt meekly with rebel leaders, saving heavyweight tactics for Somoza and his troupe. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher informed Somoza that if interim President Urcuyo continued to bollix the transferral of power to the rebels by refusing to give up U.S. Characteristically, the U.S. approached the problem of Urcuyo's last...
...Haven Federal District Court Judge Ellen B. Burns ruled, after examining the evidence, that no sexual proposition was made, that Price's course grade was not affected by anything other than an evaluation of her academic performance, and that the manner in which Yale dealt with the complaint, while ad hoc, was appropriate. William Doyle, attorney for Yale University, said yesterday...
Advocates of keeping the statute had argued that most crimes had been detected or dealt with, and that future convictions of Nazi killers would become increasingly difficult because of faulty memories, witnesses' deaths, and lack of evidence. Of the 85,802 people investigated in connection with war crimes since 1945, only 6,440 have been convicted, and only 166 received the maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Opponents of the present law were afraid that some of the several thousand Nazi criminals in hiding abroad might escape justice. There has been international pressure on the Bundestag, particularly from Jews around...
...Harvard, I dealt with a lot of light and middleweight minds. It is a pleasure to come into contact with a real heavyweight mind, such as that of Huey, a man who has a great deal of genuine warmth and love for people and a very deep commitment to justice." Trivers said in the same interview