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- <title>
- Dec. 03, 1990: American Notes:Boston
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 03, 1990 The Lady Bows Out
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 57
- American Notes
- BOSTON
- Double Standard?
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- <body>
- <p> Bostonians were doubly outraged last week at the news of a
- horrible crime. The first shock came when police arrested eight
- young gang members for the slaying of Kimberly Rae Harbour, 26,
- who had been raped, beaten and stabbed more than 100 times. The
- second occurred with the discovery that the murder had been
- committed a month ago during a Halloween wilding spree but had
- been hushed up by police.
- </p>
- <p> Law-enforcement officials had an explanation: they feared a
- repeat of the media circus that surrounded the celebrated Stuart
- murder case, when police scoured the city for a black assailant
- only to learn that the real killer was the victim's white
- husband. Some community leaders insisted that if Harbour had
- been white and middle class instead of a poor black crack
- addict, the case would have been widely publicized. What they
- failed to note was that this crime was probably not about race
- but about gender. Before their rampage, the suspects, who were
- black and Hispanic, allegedly declared that they planned to "go
- rob females."
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- </body>
- </article>
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