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ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland: Ignoring the prosecution's request to give Army Staff Sergeant Delmar Simpson life behind bars, a court-martial jury sentenced the former drill sergeant to 25 years in prison. Jurors also ordered that Simpson be dishonorably discharged and reduced to the rank of private E-1. The prosecution made an impassioned plea for jurors to deliver the maximum penalty of life in prison, arguing that it would "send a message" to other military personnel. Incredibly, Simpson's defense attorney, Frank Spinner, countered that Simpson's exposure had taught him a lesson and that the jury should...
Despite rules forbidding any romantic relationships between recruiters and recruits, the Army has until now failed to enforce that ban with the intensity it has shown in denouncing the abuse at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Last week a military jury there began deliberating whether to convict Sergeant Delmar Simpson of raping six female trainees under his command 19 times. One issue in his case is whether he used the sheer power of his position as a drill sergeant to intimidate women into submitting to him sexually. But recruiting stations present their own challenges to an Army trying to crack...
...deeply ingrained American habit that predates independence. It began with a desire to enforce firm distinctions between free citizens and slaves. In 1661, for example, Virginia decreed that the legal status of the mother would determine whether a black child was a slave or free. Three years later, Maryland went a step further, declaring that if either of a child's parents was a slave, the child would also be. The purpose of this law, its authors said, was to deter "divers freeborn English women" from marrying black slaves. But it did nothing to deter white male slave owners from...
...small decision for Brown women turned into a giant one for womankind last week. On April 21, a phone call brought some very good news to Stern, now an investment banker in Baltimore, Maryland. The call was from Lynette Labinger, an attorney representing the women. Labinger told Stern that the U.S. Supreme Court would let stand a lower-court ruling that Brown was in violation of Title IX. "I was ecstatic," says Stern. "After six years, it was finally over. It shows that universities can't ignore women in sports...
...epic, mind-bending Gravity's Rainbow (1973), rumors have circulated among the faithful that the elusive author was working on two new projects: a novel about Japanese monster movies and one dealing with the 18th century drawing of the Mason-Dixon line between the (then) colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Fragments of a Godzilla-like episode indeed appeared in Pynchon's Vineland (1990), and now here comes a real monster: Mason & Dixon (Henry Holt; 773 pages...