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...facts of the California case were more tortuous than a television melodrama: a family therapist, acting under the demands of a 1980 state law requiring that child abuse be reported, gave Solano County officials information about a physician who was alleged to have molested his stepdaughter. The information had been obtained during a counseling session with the doctor, his wife and the girl. As a result, the stepfather was charged with child molestation. He signed a confession, but Amy's corroborating evidence was needed in order to prosecute. When she refused to testify. Judge DeRonde found her in contempt...
Dingman added that he and House Master John E. Dowling '57 are currently working with Heacock's physician to determine when and how such visits would be most helpful...
Then last month, in an unprecedented action, Random House abruptly recalled all 58,000 copies of the biography. What destined the volumes for the shredder was a threatened libel suit by Dr. Edward A. Kantor. Biographer C. David Heymann had portrayed the Beverly Hills physician as Hutton's "prematurely gray-haired" Dr. Feelgood, a trusted medical adviser since 1943. In fact, Kantor turned 14 that year, and he did not treat the alcohol-and pill-addicted heiress until...
...were none of TIME'S excesses reported? Physician, heal thyself...
Michael K's "sacred garden" is trampled down by the police, who suspect him of terrorism. Seized and imprisoned, Michael K refuses to eat. A physician in the labor camp muses, "Maybe he only eats the bread of freedom." Still, Michael K has preserved a few seeds from the catastrophe. Though utterly emaciated, this wisp of a human creature slips away from his oppressors, so that he may live and die beside his pumpkin seeds. Coetzee mourns Michael K: "A creature that spends its waking life stooped over the soil, that when at last its time comes digs...