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...that one of her most famous artists-in-residence had been found mangled in the midst of the slums of Ostia, a Roman suburb, on a strip of earth between huts of corrugated tin. That he had been beaten to death in a brawl with a (male) prostitute, a seventeen-year-old streetwalker. Monday Rome was in an uproar. L'Unita, the paper of the Paritito Communista Italiano (PCI) glorified Pasolini the poet; "Il Tempo," the paper of the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI, the neofascist party) vilified Pasolini the homosexual. Posters proclaimed the martyrdom of a radical poet...
...observations, while casual and broad, are part of a long self-examination and political experience. I have spent seventeen years as an urban Democrat (from Queens) in the New York Sate Senate--eleven campaigns and endless contact with the needs and demands of my constituents. My principal contribution to politics is my ability to address difficult problems in depth and write about them at length; my publications, which have been remarkably accurate and influential, range from analyses of educational financing to advice to young people who get in trouble. I serve from time to time as Party Platform Chairman...
...Weigand won easily would understate the awesome attack he levelled against his opponent. Weigand allowed him only seventeen points in the entire match. The number five and six players, Mark Panerese and Ned Bacon, completed the sweep of the first round of four matches...
...rape investigations and packed police and hospital personnel off to sensitivity training courses to erase a traditional image: the snickering male authority who believes the victim "was asking for it." The Government is now pouring millions of dollars into research on the rape problem and care for victims. Seventeen states have barred courtroom inquiries into a rape victim's previous sex life on the ground that it is not pertinent. New York eliminated a requirement for corroborating evidence. In pushing through the change, feminists won the support of civil liberties groups, an unusual step for organizations devoted largely...
...news for the weather bureau," Coach Bill McCurdy said yesterday, "a hurricane struck in a localized area." Apparently, it only affected those who wore Crimson jerseys, for of the first seventeen runners to cross the finish line, sixteen were either Friars or Minutemen...