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...change saw the shift as a cultural statement, a move beyond the exigencies that drove the adoption of "black" itself 30 years ago. In 1988, Jackson argued that to be called "black" made the community "baseless," while "African-American" restored the community's "cultural integrity" and "proper historical context." Ramona Edelin, president of the National Urban Coalition, said in 1989 that "African-American" stood as an expression of unity with Africa and the African diaspora, of whom African-Americans were first and foremost a part; it is, she said, "our proper geopolitical identification" and "the first step in the cultural...
...public, he hasn't won over his rank and file. In a recent poll by the city's police union, 83% of officers said they did not believe he can effectively lead them. "Willie wants to have the respect of the community and the loyalty of the department," says Ramona Ripston, executive director of the A.C.L.U. Foundation of Southern California. "But it's not possible. [Former Police Chief] Daryl Gates wooed the department. He didn't care what the community thought...
...people who claim to have been unfairly accused of sexual and physical abuse by their children or others are fighting back. Arguing that they are the victims, the accused are suing therapists for allegedly putting ideas in their patients' heads. In Napa Valley, California, last year, winery executive Gary Ramona took his daughter's two therapists to court, claiming that they had induced her to confront him and say he had molested her. Ramona's wife subsequently divorced him and, once his employer found out about the accusations, he lost his job. The jury agreed that the therapists had been...
...Ramona's attorney, Richard Harrington, called on expert witnesses to discredit Isabella's and Rose's therapeutic techniques. Harvard bulimia expert Harrison Pope presented a paper stating that there is "no relationship" between childhood sexual abuse and the development of bulimia. Martin Orne, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist who pioneered research of hypnosis and sodium amytal, wrote in a court brief that the drug is "not useful in ascertaining 'truth' . . . The patient becomes sensitive and receptive to suggestions due to the context and to the comments of the interviewers." Dr. Lenore Terr, a prominent defender of recovered memories...
...finding against the therapists, 10 to 2 (a unanimous vote was not required in the civil case), the jury awarded Ramona only $500,000 of the $8 million in damages he had sought. Still, he hailed the verdict as a "tremendous victory." Said jury foreman Thomas Dudum: "We felt that there was nothing done ((by the therapists)) that was malicious. It was more a case of negligence." The ruling does not answer the question of what happened to Holly Ramona. (No criminal charges have been filed against her father.) But it will almost certainly make recovered-memory therapists more cautious...