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...Irish women, who have been all but invisible in what may be Europe's most repressively patriarchal society. She found some hopeful omens in interviews with three of Ireland's leading feminists: the country's first woman President, Mary Robinson; poet Eavan Boland; and abortion-rights activist Ruth Riddick, who inspired the book's enigmatic title. (One conservative Catholic lady is quoted as saying of Riddick and her ilk: "Oh, those women! Those women encourage whoredom in Kimmage" -- a lower-class Dublin neighborhood...
...October 1989 a group of young black men in the Wisconsin town of Kenosha saw Mississippi Burning, the film about Ku Klux Klan terror in the early 1960s. As they left the theater, one of the blacks, Todd Mitchell, spotted a 14-year-old white youth named Gregory Riddick. "Do you all feel hyped up to move on some white people?" Mitchell allegedly asked. "There goes a white...
They did. Mitchell's friends jumped Riddick and beat him so badly that he suffers permanent brain damage. Mitchell was tried and convicted of aggravated battery -- and of something more ambiguous. After sentencing him to two years in prison for the beating, the court also punished him for his motives. Using a Wisconsin law that permits increased penalties for hate crimes, the judge gave Mitchell two more years of jail time...
Harvard goalie Tripp Tracy stopped the charge, but was felled by a storming Mike Bavis in the process. Junior Sean "Riddick Bowe" McCann gave "Michael Dokes" Bavis a lesson he wouldn't soon forget, reprimanding the Terriers' insolence with a quick jab to Bavis' jaw. Knockdown. No penalty for Harvard. Power play over...
...doing so, the heavyweight ex-champ forever damaged the genial stud image of star athletes and threatened to give boxing an even blacker eye. Evander Holyfield, the titleholder in Tyson's absence, had a Mr. Olympia physique but the charisma of a C.P.A. -- until November, when he fought challenger Riddick Bowe. Holyfield lost the decision, but in standing up to Bowe's horrifying piston punches he proved himself the champ Tyson could never...