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...risk among other prisoners, or notable figures like Simpson, who need "special handling" for their own safety. "There are inmates who would ! attack him just because he is a celebrity," says Sheriff Block. "You know the kind: 'Hey, look at me -- I'm the guy who shot Abe Lincoln...
...special ADHD clinic at the University of Chicago. "Parents are putting pressure on health professionals to make the diagnosis." The allure of ADHD is that it is "a label of forgiveness," says Robert Reid, an assistant professor in the department of special education at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. "The kid's problems are not his parents' fault, not the teacher's fault, not the kid's fault. It's better to say this kid has ADHD than to say this kid drives everybody up the wall." For adults, the diagnosis may provide an excuse for personal or professional...
Books: Impresario Lincoln Kirstein's gilded youth...
...great friend,' and I've only had about four friends because I don't trust anybody. It's probably because as a child I got farmed out a lot, all over the South." After weeks of anxious rehearsals, Horne hit the stage of Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center last year and received a standing ovation. Prodded by a record producer, she returned to the studio...
...Lincoln Kirstein's career as a cultural impresario began early, grounded in two attributes rarely found together in the same person: good taste and money. The latter came from his indulgent father, a partner in a Boston department store, and it enabled Kirstein, during his freshman year at Harvard in 1926, to found Hound & Horn, an influential literary quarterly that ran seven years, published original work by the likes of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and lost approximately $8,000 an issue. Somewhat less expensively, Kirstein also began the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, an organization that provided much...