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David Sadker will accept the $5,000 award at a banquet this evening in Orlando, Fla., at the American Association of University Women (AAUW) convention. In addition, the organization will establish a $15,000 teaching fellowship in memory of Myra Sadker, who died recently of breast cancer...
While taking the same courses, the two noticed that Myra Sadker's comment were barely acknowledged in classroom discussion, while David Sadker's and other male students' comments were responded to enthusiastically by professors, David Sadker said...
...family's seven-year legal ordeal is the subject of Indictment: The McMartin Trial, a gripping-though excessively pious-TV movie that will make its debut May 20 on hbo. Conceived and scripted by veteran screenwriter Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg, The Atlanta Child Murders) and his wife Myra, the film feverishly aims to convince any doubters that the McMartins were the victims of a terrible injustice...
...Myra Mann and her husband. "I reacted like everybody else," she says. "I thought, 'God, what people.' They looked rather sleazy. Later on I realized it was because they hadn't slept. They were in terror." The Manns have been obsessed with the case since 1986, taking it as a personal crusade. In fact, they became participants in it. After Glenn Stevens, one of the prosecutors (played in the film by Joe Urla), quit the case because he felt the McMartins were being unfairly targeted, Myra Mann began to tape what would turn out to be 30 hours of interviews...
...them during the 1980's. Among the victims of the hysteria were the McMartin family, who were accused of horrific crimes in their Southern California day care center. Their trial, then the longest and costliest in American history, ended in 1990 with no convictions. But screenwriters Abby and Myra Mann's nine-year obsession with the case leaves the film feverishly trying to convince any doubters of the McMartin's innocence...