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The NYT runs a story purporting to cast light on women's post-Monica attitudes towards Bill Clinton, based, it says, on dozens of interviews with "women across the country."
According to Faludi's acknowledgements, Backlash began as a story for the San Jose Mercury News's Sunday magazine debunking an unpublished academic study by David Bloom, a Harvard economist, and Patricia Craig, a Yale graduate student, purporting to show that never-married college-educated women faced, at age 30, only a 20 percent chance of getting hitched in their lifetimes.
The WSJ and WP each run stories describing a new study purporting to show that the differences between black and white investors are considerable.
A document purporting to come from the Red Brigades, a guerrilla group thought to have been eliminated, later claimed responsibility for the killing.
includes a study purporting to show that in the major gambling cities of the U.S.--Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and Reno--the suicide rates are up to four times higher than in comparably sized cities where gambling is not legal.