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...Morgan, 42, a plastic surgeon, has spent two years in jail -- without benefit of trial -- for civil contempt of court. Her offense: refusing to disclose the whereabouts of her daughter Hilary, now 7, to Washington Judge Herbert B. Dixon Jr., who had ordered unsupervised visits with her ex-husband, oral surgeon Eric Foretich, 46, whom Morgan charges with sexually abusing the child...
...jailed for civil contempt in the District of Columbia without facing trial for criminal contempt. Morgan could be freed once the Senate bill is reconciled with somewhat broader legislation previously passed by the House. Meanwhile, on Sept. 20, the full District of Columbia Appeals Court is set to hear oral arguments on a ruling last month by a three-member panel of the bench. The panel decided that Dixon's civil- contempt charge had lost its power to coerce because of the length of time Morgan had spent in jail...
Deborah Foster, a lecturer in Folklore and Mythology and a specialist in Africa's oral tradition, took over the helm at Currier this summer when the former senior tutor left abruptly. Foster said that she hopes to expand her role by making the system of tutoring more visible, establishing a new discussion table in the dining hall and increasing interaction between incoming sophomores and other house residents...
Hastening to restore confidence in its imprimatur, the FDA last week launched a crash program to re-evaluate 30 of the most commonly prescribed generic medications, including such prevalent antibiotics as ampicillin and oral penicillin. Over the next six weeks, the agency will test more than 1,000 samples to make sure they are biologically equivalent to their brand-name counterparts. In addition, the FDA, which had cut back its commercial inspections because of budget restraints, announced that it will hire more field inspectors and seek tougher punishments for unscrupulous manufacturers...
White resentment over affirmative action has become a powerful undercurrent in race relations. "Whites think most discrimination is ancient history," says sociologist Bob Blauner, the author of a recently published oral history, Black Lives, White Lives. "They see things like affirmative action, and some people even think blacks have an advantage...