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...mark of the biggest traumas is that they reach down to the smallest levels. On the morning after Election Day, the 8-year-old son of a defeated Democratic Congressman walked slowly into his third-grade classroom at Horace Mann School in Washington and announced sadly, "My dad lost." The boy was worried that he might have to move, and his teacher tried to console him. "He's too little to understand the full implications," says principal Sheila Ford. "But he knows enough that it's been real hard...
...Society for Neuroscience in Miami -- suggests that measuring the levels of certain chemicals in the brain can identify those people with a biological predisposition to self-destruction. "More than 95% of the people who commit suicide show these changes in the brain ((at autopsy))," says Dr. John Mann of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. "But the biochemical abnormality is there even in those who attempt to kill themselves. And it is most pronounced in those who make the most dangerous attempts...
Afternoons are spent panhandling the tourists, especially around Mann's Chinese Theater and the Walk of Fame. When night falls, the tourists disappear and the city becomes hell's Disneyland. Hollywood Boulevard is popular for hanging out, usually at the corner of Cherokee, while Sunset Strip features straight prostitution and Santa Monica Boulevard specializes in the gay sex trade. Abandoned buildings serve as "squats," the makeshift homes inhabited by as many as several dozen youths. Entombed by the thick plywood nailed to the windows and doors, the youths live with drugs, rats and human waste...
...destroy families of the poor only because they are black and poor. Steve Chabot wants the death penalty to apply unequally to African-Americans. Chabot wants more African-Americans. But you shouldn't be surprised. Chabot's a Republican." --From a campaign advertisement run by Chabot's opponents. David Mann, as quoted yesterday by The New York Times. The advertisement was pulled after only one day on the radio. Mann's office claimed that he was unaware of the content of the ad until he heard it himself. The two are competing for an Ohio Congressional scat...
...opening words of Fine's speech--a reference to the political debacle of Ross Perot running-mate James Stockdale in his debate with AlGore and Dan Quayle--resurrected almost verbatim the speech of John A. Mann '92-'94 when he ran for vice president last year...