Other livesSociologyObituaryOtto Newman obituaryMy father, Otto Newman, who has died aged 93, escaped from the Nazis in Austria on Kristallnacht in 1938. Aged 16, he had been picked up and bundled into a truck but managed to jump off and run away. The others in the truck were never seen again, and a little later Otto was able to reach London on the Kindertransport from Vienna. Apart from his two sisters, Lucy and Erika, and his uncle Heinrich, the rest of the family perished in Auschwitz and Birkenau, among them his father, Jonah, an insurance company director, and his mother, Rosa (nee Schwartzstein). Read More...
Brookline, Massachusetts, is barring those born after 2000 from buying the products. Is a paternalistic approach always right?
by Simar BajajMary Jo began smoking when she was 12 years old, sneaking behind her church and picking up cigarette butts off the ground. As she got a little older, she would steal cigarettes from her brother and, by 15, she was buying her own packs – a proud Marlboro smoker.
“I smoked for 30 years,” she tells me. Read More...
Maine This article is more than 10 years oldWoman who ran Kennebunk 'Zumba brothel' released from prisonThis article is more than 10 years oldAlexis Wright, whose client list contained more than 100 names, leaves Maine jail after serving six monthsThe Zumba instructor who ran a prostitution business in which she videotaped unsuspecting clients so her business partner could watch from his office 100 miles away has been released from jail, bringing to a close a scandal featuring sex videos, adultery and a client list with more than 100 names. Read More...