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Though the Star's market is heavily populated by job-secure Government workers and blessed with one of the nation's highest per-household incomes ($28,611 a year), the capital had for a time been in danger of becoming a one-newspaper town. Long Washington's leading daily, the afternoon Star two decades ago began slipping behind the aggressive morning Post in both circulation and advertising revenues. When sold to Allbritton in 1974, the Star's losses were close to $8 million. Allbritton installed tighter financial controls, trimmed the staff by about a third, persuaded...
...Gornick's women have some of the most fervent lines, it is probably because Communism offered them an occupation other than household drudgery. But not always. One party wife, weary of feeding her husband's comrades, finally exploded...
Local prosecutors select their career violators using individual systems. Louisville targets suspects with two previous felony convictions or five arrests. Washington concentrates on parolees who are arrested again, for a crime of violence; Detroit zeros in on three-time offenders charged with murder, rape, household burglary and armed robbery. Boston uses a "case evaluation form," based on a ten-point penalty system. Penalty points are given for brutality, use of firearms, parole or bail status at the time of the crime, and even strength of the evidence against the suspect. Any suspect who gets ten points or more gets...
Many eminent British doctors found the substance of equal use. Dr. J. Russell Reynolds, Fellow of the Royal Society and Physician in Ordinary to Her Majesty's (Queen Victoria's) Household wrote in 1890 that he had prescribed cannabis for 30 years and considered it "one of the most valuable medicines we possess." (Did the otherwise straitlaced Queen, a joint dangling from her stiff upper lip, know something we don't know...
...divorce last September, Cornelia countersued on grounds of "physical cruelty and actual violence." The legal battle promised to be lurid, but minutes before the trial was to begin, an out-of-court agreement was announced, giving Cornelia a lump sum of $75,000 in alimony, some lake property and household appliances...