Word: patrick
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...arrested men, Mel Patrick Lynch, 37, a New York City fireman, and Dominic Byrne, 53, a Brooklyn limousine operator, have signed statements admitting their roles in the eight-day abduction of the 21-year-old Bronfman. Lynch's attorney has asked that his client undergo psychiatric tests, apparently to build a defense of mental incompetence at the time of the kidnaping. Byrne's attorney insists that his client acted out of fear-presumably of Lynch -for his safety, and actually helped Bronfman during his confinement. Although the two suspects have been friends for about ten years, their defense...
When Daniel Patrick Moynihan was named the new American Ambassador to the U.N. three months ago, some diplomats braced themselves for the arrival of a real ogre. It was Moynihan, after all, who, having just wound up a two-year tour as U.S. Ambassador to India, wrote a controversial article urging the U.S. to quit kowtowing to the Third World. Instead of apologizing for America's "imperfect democracy," he said, the U.S. should take a tough stand toward the new nations, especially their tendency to band together with the Communist countries in anti-Western positions...
Bellows has since brightened the paper's makeup, hired irreverent Pulitzer-prizewinning Cartoonist Patrick Oliphant away from the Denver Post, added a progressive, young editorial-page editor and dropped a few antediluvian columnists, and proffered readers a daily front-page "Q and A" column (one surprise subject: Post Publisher Katharine Graham) and "The Ear," a brassy capital gossip column...
Children are more likely to turn to crime if parents battle frequently, or if one parent is missing through death, divorce or abandonment. The stresses on blacks seem particularly severe. A decade ago, when Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then Assistant Secretary of Labor, published his report on the black family in America, 24% of these families were headed by a woman, with no father present. Now the figure is 35%. Says James Q. Wilson: "The forces that continue to operate on the black family, particularly in the inner city, continue to create situations in which young people are hopelessly disadvantaged...
...founding fathers. The generation that fought the War for Independence and wrote the federal Constitution doubted that a representative government could decently and efficiently rule a large area. The excesses and failures of the British Parliament in its effort to govern the colonies seemed an obvious illustration. When Patrick Henry argued against ratifying the federal Constitution in the Virginia Convention (June 9,1788), he called for a single example of a great extent of country governed by one Congress. "One government," he insisted, "cannot reign over so extensive a country as this is, without absolute despotism." Americans were fighting against...