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Street person Richard Kreimer won national attention -- and a potful of cash -- when he sued the public library in Morristown, N.J., over a patron code of conduct that banned homeless people with poor personal hygiene. But the self- styled "homeless Ralph Nader" found himself barred from the building once again last week when a federal appeals court in Philadelphia overturned his victory and upheld the right of public libraries to expel vagrants in certain circumstances. A lower court had said the rules were an infringement of Kreimer's First Amendment rights, but the three-judge appeals panel disagreed. Although...
...understanding of it is that Dr. Bean-Bayogsought numerous consultations on this case," saidDr. Ralph Engle, former president of the BostonPsychiatric Society. "[Bean-Bayog] was told onmany occasions that she shouldn't abandon herpatient because he was suicidal," Engle told TheGlobe...
...view TV special in January drew more viewers than did similar specials by the Rolling Stones and New Kids on the Block. In a year when the income from the top 10 rock or pop tours declined 32%, country acts increased their revenues 40%. The recently published autobiography of Ralph Emery, Nashville's answer to Johnny Carson, who is the host of Nashville Now, a live show on the Nashville Network (TNN), has been on best-seller lists for 17 weeks. In just two years, the magazine Country America has doubled its circulation to almost 1 million. Even the arbiters...
...Country fans, who, like their stars, tend to be white, are not shy about describing their music as the musical equivalent of the urban escapism known as white flight. "Thank God for rap," says Bowen. "Every morning when they play that stuff, people come running to us." Says Ralph Emery: "Rap music speaks only to black issues, and has turned a lot of white people...
Outside the rally, a mish-mash of protesters, including Brown, Buchanan and Ralph Nader supporters, held signs and chanted slogans...