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...decided two weeks ago, dwarfs them all. The Manhattan lawyer was accused of brutalizing his lover Hedda Nussbaum and was convicted of manslaughter in the death of their illegally adopted daughter Lisa. Here was every ingredient of the true-crime blockbuster: cocaine, an S-M relationship, a beautiful six-year-old and a battered woman, all set against the background of Greenwich Village. Most important, in a city afflicted with racial malaise, it starred what Tom Wolfe identified in The Bonfire of the Vanities as the Great White Defendant...
...children whose symptoms have been misdiagnosed are being given Ritalin and other powerful drugs. Since 1987, parents around the country have filed more than a dozen Ritalin-related lawsuits against doctors, teachers and school districts. In one such suit, a Washington woman claimed that the drug led her six-year-old son to attempt suicide. Complaints about depression, listlessness and insomnia in medicated % children are common. Valerie Jesson, of Derry, N.H., says her son Casey, 10, became a zombie while on Ritalin: "It knocked him into next week. His eyes would glaze, and he would just sit staring." Jesson...
...sticker showing clasped hands. He told me of a relative in Leninakan who lost two children in the rubble; a third child had her legs severed at the knees. He reflected on Armenian hopes to regain Nagorno-Karabakh, the disputed Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, and told how his six-year-old son can already sing patriotic songs about his Armenian homeland. "We already have had our share of grief this year," George said. "And now this new disaster promises us even more. But if you come back again this week, I will wait for you here. With a bottle...
...still limps. Despite plastic surgery, her nose is crushed and her upper lip is permanently split. But when she testified last week in a Manhattan courtroom against her former live-in lover, who is accused of beating to death their illegally adopted six-year-old daughter, Hedda Nussbaum spoke in a firm, clear voice. What emerged was a bizarre tale of violence, drug abuse, isolation and mind control inflicted by disbarred lawyer Joel Steinberg. Asked why she never escaped from Steinberg's thrall, Nussbaum had a simple reply: "I worshiped...
...have drawn SRO crowds. One stars the 1945 Miss America, Bess Myerson, though she has been upstaged by the gabby daughter of a local judge, testifying for the prosecution. The second, unfolding as a sordid tragedy, centers on Joel Steinberg, a disbarred attorney accused of beating to death six-year-old Lisa, a child he had raised but never formally adopted. And, in a brief personal appearance, former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos swept into court swathed in silk...