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...were raising, to the exclusion of the men who were the fathers. White was convinced that the story of these young men needed to be told. To put their plight in context, White spoke with a dozen scholars who have studied the under class and drew on his own firsthand knowledge as well: "Some of the guys I went to high school with are in jail now. Some have been strung out on drugs. Some have been killed. It is all the more depressing because many others have joined the growing class of black professionals who enjoy unprecedented opportunities...
...Buscetta, who testified in New York's "pizza connection" trial about heroin smuggling between U.S. and Sicilian mobsters, provided new evidence about the operations of the Mafia's ruling Commission. A second pentito, the mid-level Mob executive Salvatore (Toto) Contorno, made detailed accusations against defendants based on his firsthand knowledge of the Mafia's internecine warfare over the drug market in the early 1980s, when Sicily was the heroin- refining capital of the world. At one point, Contorno turned to the cages where defendants are being held and pointed to several, accusing them of trying to kill...
...crisp British tones. "But not in the conventional sense." She does acknowledge that her son Simon, 32, a social worker who has emigrated to Denver, "was a children's officer and has been rather a help with psychopaths and with case histories, especially of children in care." She disclaims firsthand acquaintance with crimes and sounds positively appalled when discussing readers who write in with suggestions they have concocted: "I am always hearing from little old ladies living in quiet places with their even older mothers who say they have a plot they want me to do. It's usually cannibalism...
...caused by violent sexual movies any more than war is caused by Rambo." But many agree with the commission that porn is linked to sexual assault. NOW President Eleanor Smeal says that feminist work with rape victims and battered wives points up "the influence of violent pornography firsthand." But, she adds, "we don't want to suppress sexually explicit material that is not harmful or violent." The problem, similar to the one faced by the Meese Commission, is sorting out what is and is not damaging. Says Deborah Chalfie, a Washington attorney active in Feminists Against Pornography: "I still have...
Bradley's interest in tax reform was stirred, typically, not by a three- by-five card handed to him by a Senate aide but by his own firsthand experience. As a bonus baby for the New York Knicks in 1967, his eyes widened as his lawyer described all the ways he could shelter his six-figure income. "I wasn't just a player," he recalls. "I was a depreciable asset." On one road trip, when his teammates went to the movies to unwind, Bradley curled up with heavy tomes by Economist Milton Friedman and Tax Specialist Stanley Surrey and first...