Word: case
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Among conspicuous victims within the past year have been an East Coast big- city mayor, a Midwestern Governor and a West Coast U.S. Senator, none of them incontrovertibly known to be gay. In each case, the official was identified as a homosexual via leaflets or noisy demonstrations. The rationale for exposing the politicians' alleged secret lives was that they were guilty of malicious hypocrisy on matters of life and death. One outing victim had endorsed legislation allowing hospitals to test patients for AIDS without their consent. Another backed a ban on funding to school programs that describe homosexuality as normal...
Well-intentioned as it may be, the A.H.A. is stepping into a quagmire by trying to serve as a dietary oracle. Too often scientific ground shifts, and today's notion of sound nutritional advice becomes tomorrow's myth. The latest case in point: oat bran. Two years ago, the high-fiber grain was elevated to alimentary sainthood after a few studies showed that people who ate a diet rich in the stuff enjoyed a significant drop in their cholesterol levels. Doctors began recommending the grain to patients, and food manufacturers rushed to add it to everything from muffins to tortilla...
...disputed region of Transylvania, where most of Rumania's ethnic Hungarians live. Ceausescu regularly accused them of sabotage and planned to destroy their villages and force them into housing complexes. Delighted at Ceausescu's fall, the Hungarians still wonder if the new government will treat them fairly. Case in point: the handling of Laszlo Tokes, the dissident Hungarian clergyman in the town of Timisoara whose harassment by Ceausescu's forces in December helped spark the revolt that eventually toppled the regime. Although Tokes was later named to the ruling National Salvation Front, he is still being guarded by the army...
About the worst thing that can happen to a child is to be sexually molested. About the worst thing that can happen to an adult is to be wrongly accused of committing such a heinous crime. The tragedy of last week's not-guilty verdict in the McMartin case, the longest, most expensive trial in U.S. history, is that both horrors may have occurred. Said Judge William Pounders: "The case has poisoned everyone who had contact with...
...interviews would prove to be the undoing of the prosecutor's case. By early 1984, investigators concluded that 369 of the 400 children interviewed had been abused. MacFarlane's technique seemed Pavlovian: emotional rewards to the children who accused the teachers, rebuffs to those who did not. "What good are you? You must be dumb," she said to one child who knew nothing about the game Naked Movie Star. MacFarlane recorded stories of children digging up dead bodies at cemeteries, jumping out of airplanes, killing animals with bats. When asked to point out molesters while driving around the city, children...