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...world," says Chin, 38. "We need the downtime, and knitting has been scientifically proved to be a stress reducer." Since she began giving lessons in 1991, Chin has had a dramatic drop in the average age of her students. Why? Gloria Steinem had her day, but now Martha Stewart says it's O.K.--even empowering--to nest. "Sometimes I can work 12 hours a day and not accomplish much," explains Yassy Okamoto, 27, a corporate lawyer in Tsang's knitting circle. "When you make something with your hands, like knitting, you create, and that's the kind of satisfaction...
...possibly fateful--therapy. Those who have seen the proposal for Dead Man Talking: A Kennedy Cousin Comes Clean say that in it Skakel describes being made to wear a sign around his neck. It read: I AM AN ARROGANT RICH BRAT. CONFRONT ME ON WHY I KILLED MY FRIEND MARTHA...
...book proposal was eventually withdrawn. But the document circulated, and last week, 25 years after the bludgeoning of Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Conn., Michael Skakel was confronted with a vengeance. He was indicted for her murder. Police showed up to arrest Skakel at the half-million-dollar Florida home he shares with his golf-pro wife and child, but he was already on a plane north. He turned himself in to Connecticut police, pleaded not guilty and was released on $500,000 bail...
...Martha Moxley's mother Dorthy last saw her daughter alive on Halloween Eve 1975. Martha wore a blue parka and was skipping out the door of the sumptuous house the family had settled into just the year before, joining a group that included two across-the-lane neighbors, Thomas Skakel, 17, and his 15-year-old brother Michael. If the Moxleys were well off, the Skakels were Greenwich royalty. Rushton Skakel was chairman of Great Lakes Carbon, one of the world's largest privately held companies. In a union of money, power and more money, Skakel's sister Ethel...
...Martha never returned. Friends later testified to seeing her and Tommy "making out" near the Skakel home at 9:30 p.m. At 10, Dorthy heard dogs barking and a commotion outside. Martha's body was found at noon the next day under a tree in the Moxley yard. She lay in a 3-ft. pool of blood; her head had been bludgeoned some 14 times with a blunt instrument, and the sharp, broken shaft of that instrument, a Toney Penna 6-iron golf club, had been driven into her throat...