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...list of tragic American Dreamers, people who martyred themselves for visions that stubbornly refused realization while they lived -- one thinks of rocket scientist Robert Goddard and car manufacturer Preston Tucker -- it seems we must now add the name of Benjamin Siegel. His great notion was the reinvention of Las Vegas, converting it from a sleepy cow town into a gaudy pleasure dome where everything that was illicit elsewhere in the puritanical U.S. of a half-century ago was openly available on a gloriously legal basis...
Philip P. Pan and Maggie S. Tucker contributed to the reporting of this article...
...married women will be raped by their spouses. Very few crimes will be reported, however, since women assume that no one will believe them. "People think marital rape is she has a headache and doesn't want to have sex and she gives in," says Ann Marie Tucker, executive director of the Citizens Committee on Rape, Sexual Assault and Sexual Abuse in Buffalo. "That isn't it at all. The sexual abuse is often part of an ongoing pattern of physical intimidation and violence...
Maggie S. Tucker '93 covered minority and women's issues for The Crimson last year...
Maggie S. Tucker contributed to the reporting of this article...