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...last few seconds sweetly ticked away, I wanted to be on the ice for the awards presentation. Tough enough, I figured, as I didn't have any kind of media pass for the locker room area...
...equal measure. But for Edge, this is no casual job. Before coming to Malcolm X two years ago, he was assigned to a nearby junior high. When students from the school were killed, it was his duty to walk the grieving mother or father to their child's locker and help them clean out the books, papers and gym shoes. How many died? "Twenty, maybe 30," he says, his eyes welling up with tears...
...explained to my son how to be himself, how not to be a follower, to use his own judgment," says a grateful Sylvia Chavis, a single parent and mother of sixth-grader Terrence Cooper. Each of Edge's warnings is tinged with the memory of an empty locker or graveside service. His job too is not without risks. Last year three men opened the door of the school and leveled automatic weapons at him. "Hey, you," they hollered, paused for a moment, then left. Says Edge: "I never know if I'm going to come home at night...
Packwood will emerge from the treatment center to face some new realities. Sexual harassment of female aides is no longer a tolerated perk of his traditionally macho club: the six women Senators, four of them just elected, will surely do their best to see that the locker-room ethos of the upper house goes the way of cloture. Members of both House and Senate now worry that more past indiscretions will surface. Thanks to Anita Hill, Washington women have greater assurance that their careers will not suffer if they call a powerful boss to order. And experts on sexual harassment...
...thoroughly evil," pronounced U.S. District Judge Garrett Brown as he sentenced Arthur D. Seale to the maximum: 95 years in prison, without parole. Seale, 45, an ex-Exxon employee, kidnapped senior Exxon official Sidney Reso in his own driveway and stuffed him, bound and bleeding, into a storage locker while negotiating his ransom. The entombed Reso slowly died an agonizing death. Seale and his wife Irene were tracked down by investigators. It was she who divulged the damning details of the kidnapping, and is now in prison, soon to face her own sentencing...