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...accurate is the testimony of children? Their visual powers and memories are every bit as good, or bad, as adults', contends Shirley Robinson, executive director of the Child Sexual Abuse Treatment and Training Center of Illinois. "Preschoolers can't remember their addresses," she notes, "but they can remember the print of the wallpaper in the room where they were molested." Experts disagree about whether children are unusually suggestible. As for possible youthful flights of imagination, Child Advocate Schrier says, "Kids don't fantasize about a sexual abuse incident...
...possessed the Redskins and had designs on the South. Marshall imagined a sprawling Southern TV football network with his Redskins installed, in the Confederate sense, as "America's Team." With this in mind, Marshall, who also owned a linen business, had kept the Redskins as white as percale. Shirley Povich of the Washington Post occasionally referred to the team colors as "burgundy, gold and Caucasian...
...dropped to four. It's hard to find the right way to think about Garry Trudeau's decision not to draw. "Doonesbury" for the net three semesters. This generation of college students has no equivalent cultural tragedy to compare it to we weren't going to the movies when Shirley Temple turned into a teenager. We weren't reading magazines when Look and the old Lifefolded, we weren't going to rock concerts when the Beatles broke...
...trouble began about a month ago, when John Shirley, a United States Information Agency official and Yale alum, asked the Glee Club to participate in a USIA broadcast for Voice of America radio Aired December 13, the program will mark the first anniversary of the Soviet crackdown in Poland, the move which eventually destroyed the labor union Solidarity and squelched the freedom of the Polish people...
...Shirley wanted the much-touted singers of his alma mater to join in the show by singing "Let Poland Be Poland," an anthem which has become the theme song of Solidarity...