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...which was to review the museum's work and recommend for the museum's future. It is strange that the director of the museum should have been the person to lead an inquiry into how it has fared under his stewardship. This was a set-up, but with a twist. Stager wanted the museum not exactly to fold, but to contract radically. Two members of his committee, moreover, would be beneficiaries of this contraction: As directors of the Fogg and Peabody museums, they are to inherit the parts of the collection which Stager wants to dispose of. Neither of them...
...thousands of therapy patients are "discovering" repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse, a smaller number are adding a new twist: they are recalling abductions by aliens. Under hypnosis, Los Angeles film producer Michael Bershad recalled his car being pulled to the side of the road by a bright object. "I got out of the car and saw five guys under 4 ft. tall. They led me inside the craft." A leader examined him, opening up his back to poke around his vertebra. The extraterrestrials also extracted sperm. "I had a lot of shame," says Bershad. "It was humiliating and degrading...
Legislatures in nearly half the states have responded to the widespread public acceptance of recovered memories by applying a strange twist to venerable statute-of-limitations laws. In general, the new legislation allows alleged victims of child abuse to sue the accused perpetrators within three to six years after the repressed memories emerge. This means that with little more than the recollection of the accuser, a parent or other relative can be hauled into court decades after the supposed crime...
...Shellac "Wingwalker" 2. Kudgel "Now" 3. Ampersands "Post Cards" 4. Huggybear "Pansy Twist" 5. Rancid Hell Spawn "Rebel with a Bus Pass" 6. King Loser "Never a Thought" 7. Milkmine "Skelch" 8. Bikini Kill "Magnet" 9. Gaunt "No Hope" 10. Fat Day "Knute Rockne" 11. New Bomb Turks "This Place Sucks" 12. Element of Crimes "Delinquent Squint" 13. Universal Order of Armageddon "Flux" 14. Monster Truck 5 "Ain't Never Been" 15. The Lune "Giving Up" 16. Sparkalepsy "Friendly Fire" 17. Skinned Teen "Punk Rockest" 18. Conflict "These Colours" 19. Victims "Television Addict" 20. Thinking Fellers "Undertaker...
...battle over abortion rights took another twist Thursday when Governor William F. Weld '66 signed the abortion clinic access bill. Passed by large majorities in both the Massachusetts House and Senate, the act, authored by State Sen. Lois Pines (D-Newton), prohibits the obstruction of clinic entrances and increases punishments on violators...