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Stanley Abercrombie

Stanley Abercrombie is an architect and writer. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and of the American Academy in Rome.

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Oracle in Pearls

Ada Louise Huxtable, able to depict a building in a few memorable words, set the standard for informed and fearless criticism

by Stanley Abercrombie | Friday, March 01, 2013
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A Passion for Architecture

Nuggets from a critical gold mine

by Stanley Abercrombie | Monday, December 01, 2008
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The Tales Buildings Tell

Architects can overwhelm their creations; time can make a hash of great visions

by Stanley Abercrombie | Tuesday, December 01, 2009
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What the Jeffrey Epstein Case Can Teach Us About Sex Trafficking

by Scott W. Stern

Financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on Saturday and charged with new counts of sex trafficking. Epstein was previously investigated for alleged sex crimes, a controversial case that ended when he signed a nonprosecution agreement and served a 13-month jail sentence, with generous “work-release” privileges. In his article for the Scholar’s summer issue, Scott W. Stern refers to the Epstein case in highlighting the complexity of prostitution laws in the United States, which often make no distinction between consensual sex workers and trafficked ones—meaning that many trafficking victims are arrested and prosecuted while the men who solicit sex are let off the hook. “Trafficking survivors are likelier to go to the authorities,” he writes, “if they won’t be thrown in prison—or deported—as a result.”