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The Washington Monthly Journalism Award ERIC SCHLOSSER D.C. Schools: Learning the MORLEYS AFER The Business of Porn Hard Way The Disaster that Wasn’t U. S. News ? World Report The...
...ambulance chasers...
...Few citizens were severe(y injured Yet some 65,000peoplefiled suit, collecting up to $180 million in damages-and paying 650 million in legal fees to enterprising lawyers, a.k.a...
...capital, the Post exposes the failure of District functionaries andjigureheads to provide for public schools...
...A July 1993 chemicalaccident at General Chemicalin Richmond, Calg, hadall the characteristics of your typical disaster: victims, hospitallines, a toxic cloudand lawyers...
...As further evidence of the decline of the nation...
...The Washington Monthly Journalism Award ERIC SCHLOSSER D.C...
...horrifying inadequacies and neglect, from which the children of resourcefil, uppermiddleclass whites generally escape...
...This five-part series reveals the system...
...Schools: Learning the MORLEYS AFER The Business of Porn Hard Way The Disaster that Wasn’t U. S. News ? World Report The Washington Post 60 Minutes Charged with encouraging violence against women and commodifying the female body, the sex industry may offend Americans across the political spectrum, but it remains hugely profitable, especially in the U S.--now the world leader in porn peddling...
...Left behind are the children ofpoor, minority families who must navigate a system saddled by an ineficient bureaucracy rfe with cronyism...
...And, as Safer shows, sometimes attorneys can be more noxious than chemicalfimes...
...Schlosser traces the migration ofpornfiompublic theaters to home videos, and examines this 88 billion-ayear enteterprise to uncover the economics of who benejtsfiom this world of hard-core movies and explicit magazines...
Vol. 29 • April 1997 • No. 4
