PRINTABLE PAGE State’s New Abuse Law Nets Conviction Defendant found guilty of sex crimes involving relative By Sherri Williams, Clarion-Ledger Staff WriterOriginally published in The Clarion-Ledger, November 15, 2001 A Walthall County man accused of sexual battery and gratification of…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Calls to Students Offering Scholarships Are Actually Harassment Scams By Joe RobertsonOriginally published in The Kansas City Star, May 22, 2002 Their phones rang with the calls that teen-age athletes yearn for: A university coach was offering a…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Gays in China Step Out, With One Foot in Closet By Elisabeth RosenthalOriginally published in The New York Times, April 12, 2002 SHENZHEN, China — A pillar of Shenzhen’s thriving gay community, Mr. Wu networks his way through…
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PRINTABLE PAGE PM Rejects Church Sex Abuse Inquiry Originally published by AAP, June 2, 2002 A royal commission into child sex abuse cover-ups within churches would be a witch-hunt, Prime Minister John Howard said. Mr Howard said the government had…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Mean Girls Schoolgirls’ ways of being cruel to each other are now so insidious and sophisticated that their victims can feel the devastating effects well into adulthood By Amelia Hill and Edward HelmoreOriginally published in The Observer, March…
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PRINTABLE PAGE New HIV Infections Striking Nearly 1 in 7 Young, Gay Black Men Overall rate returns to mid-1980s levels By Charelne LainoOriginally published by MSNBC, May 31, 2001 About one in seven young, gay black men in major U.S.…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Man Gets Five Years’ Probation for Hanging Six Akitas Originally published by The Associated Press, November 8, 2001 WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A man who hanged six dogs, one at a time, from a bicycle rack in…
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PRINTABLE PAGE A Lack of Resources, but Not Complaints By Amanda Harris, Investigations TeamOriginally published in Newsday, 1999DAY SEVEN Last year, Tareyon Johnson, a mother of three with a high-school equivalency diploma, applied for work as a bus driver at…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Rabbis Seek Lanner Plea Deal Launch effort to keep alleged abuser out of jail; critics say empathy misplaced. Gary Rosenblatt, Editor and Publisher, The Jewish WeekOriginally published in The Jewish Week, February 28, 2002 An effort is under…
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PRINTABLE PAGE City Is Urged Not to Add Jail Space for Juveniles By Michael CooperOriginally published in The New York Times, April 5, 2002 In the current climate of protests over city budget cuts, it is a man-bites-dog story: a…