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What Makes Terrorists Tick? I read about forensic psychiatrist Marc Sageman's new book, Leaderless Jihad, with great interest [March 31]. I think Sageman fails to answer this basic question: If suicide bombers act out of a sense of social injustice rather than psychopathology, why do they so often target noncombatants, including children? What could be more unjust than the killing of the innocent? An alternative explanation is that we are dealing with a different kind of psychopath, a paranoid who sees himself as the victim and all Jews and Westerners as the demonic enemy and persecutor. David Levinsky, BANDON...
...findings, published in this week's Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, suggest that bedtime behaviors that soothe infants don't always benefit older children. "Giving food or drink to the child may be an appropriate answer when he awakes at night during the first months of life," Simard says, "However, most often, children at 29 to 41 months do not wake up because they are hungry." According to Simard's study, children whose parents fed them when they woke up in the middle of the night at age three were more likely to have nightmares and short sleep times...
...inequality. “The street gangs wanted legitimacy and to act like a corporation,” he said. “It is an industry, it is work, and they called it work.”Despite pressure from members of the audience during the question-and-answer session at the end of the panel, Simon refused to give up his pessimism that police or politicians could do anything to reverse the fortunes of those affected by drugs. “Laissez-faire has failed,” he said. “Capitalism has been allowed...
...Over 200 people filled the Winthrop House Junior Common Room (JCR) to hear Rove speak about the election and answer questions...
...given the current space concerns rocking the campus, a smaller freshman class will likely alleviate some of the recent housing burdens. In short, although the finalized data pertaining to the Class of 2012 will not be available until after May 1, when seniors have to give Harvard an answer, it seems as though this has been a highly successful year for the Admissions Office. We laud the College for taking these progressive steps which will pay off in making this a simultaneously more competitive and diverse institution...