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...study, run by Arthur Kellerman, head of pediatric emergency medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, monitored the behavior of 64 boys, aged 8 to 12, who were asked to wait in an observation room with a desk - in which researchers hid a pair of water pistols and one .38-caliber semiautomatic handgun. (The real weapon was empty - although rigged to feel loaded - and was wired to gauge whether the force placed on the trigger was enough to fire the gun). The boys, who were paired up with one or two friends, were told they should wait there for their parents...
...should be fitted with child-resistant triggers. Gun-rights groups, on the other hand, insist the study was flawed because the sample group was so small, and because the hospital-like setting may have given the boys a false sense of safety. The NRA has been harshly critical of Kellerman in the past, arguing that his studies are barely-veiled public relations exercises for gun control...
Director Jesse Kellerman '01 asked for a challenge with Gross Indecency, a recent play staged for the first time in 1997. Its runs in New York City and San Francisco have kept the professional theater community buzzing about the play's strength not only as a piece of theater but also about the difficulty of sustaining a courtroom drama whose energy comes from rhetoric rather than action...
directed by Jesse Kellerman...
...work; financial aid to cope with skyrocketing housing costs; and money for medical services, utility bills and funeral expenses. Federal, state and local aid for these basics is dwindling. Private philanthropy too often shies away from providing "direct service" and does not adequately help needy, hard-working families. PHILIP KELLERMAN, PRESIDENT Harvest of Hope Foundation Oneonta...