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...Even as she announced her departure, Hughes made sure to frame the President's embrace of her new role as one more sign of an evolved executive who knows that family comes first. It was the family impulse behind Hughes' departure that most fascinated commentators. From the outset, the Bush White House has boasted of its family-friendly atmosphere, with the office lights turned off at 7 p.m. so parents could be home with their children. Aides snickered that this was true only for top people like Hughes - yet even she ultimately wanted out. "This is not a defeat...
...researchers have many unanswered questions about child sexual abusers, a serious, if small, academic field is devoted to understanding and preventing their behavior--and to comprehending its effects on their victims. Such work can require cold-eyed questions that poke around the edges of our darkest taboos. At the outset, it's important to note that news accounts often conflate two phenomena: pedophilia and child sexual abuse. According to Dr. Fred Berlin, a Johns Hopkins University professor who founded the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma in Baltimore, Md., pedophilia is a distinct sexual orientation...
...story centers around the brooding title character and the complex network of relationships that cause his macabre exploits. At the outset of the musical, Sweeney emerges from a 15-year exile imposed by the corrupt Judge Turpin, who lusted after his wife. Sweeney returns to London only to be greeted with news from Mrs. Lovett, a baker of unsavory meat pies, that the judge has raped his wife (leading her to poison herself) and taken their daughter Johanna as his ward. While Sweeney slaved “in a living hell,” Johanna has grown into a beautiful...
Last night, the Crusaders (1-13, 0-6 Patriot) probably wished the Crimson had just beaten Yale and ended its losing streak there. An angry Harvard team jumped all over Holy Cross from the outset, taking an 8-1 lead by the end of the first quarter...
...didn’t seem so at the outset of the game, however, as the Big Green (9-3, 4-2) couldn’t even gain possession of the ball before Gotha found sophomore midfielder Jen Brooks on the right side of the goal. Brooks calmly slotted it into the net, giving Harvard the early lead...