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...tempting to make excuses for violence. The mugger came from a broken home and was trying to lift himself out of poverty. The wife beater was himself abused as a child. The juvenile murderer was exposed to Motley Crue records and Terminator movies. But do environmental factors wholly account for the seven-year-old child who tortures frogs? The teenager who knifes a teacher? The employee who slaughters workmates with an AK-47? Can society's ills really be responsible for all the savagery that is sweeping America? Or could some people be predisposed to violence by their genes...
...words over police training and attitudes. Two white transit cops sprayed 21 shots at a man in a dispute they deemed dangerous -- only to find the man was a black plainclothes officer, Derwin Pannell. The white officers involved claim Pannell had his gun drawn (he was stopping a fare beater). He says his weapon was holstered and he was startled when his colleagues fired at him from point-blank range. Partially paralyzed, he is suing the city for $70 million...
What accounts for his amazing metamorphosis from also-ran to world-beater? Powell, 28, gives credit to a five-year scientific training plan devised by his coach, Randy Huntington, who goes by the nickname "Mr. Gizmo" and leaves almost no technique untried in his exhaustive approach to training. Among the elements of Powell's regime...
Then there's Dylan Tweney, a newcomer who doesn't storm in and take the crowd over, but lets his neurotic persona do the job; he writhes as he becomes a guilty wife-beater or a distraught lover. And then there's Marc Weidershein, a middle-aged man who stands square in front of the crowd, reading from his book, incanting the words like a priest in his congregation, which is squished about him on the floor...
Peninsula denies that any homosexual--no matter how good an individual--could ever be a better parent than a heterosexual. In fact, he denies that homosexuals can be parents at all. In other words, child-beater Joan Crawford was a better mother than Professor of English and American Literature Barbara Johnson would be. Child-killer Joel Steinberg was a better father than Plummer Professor of Christian Morals the Rev. Peter J. Gomes would be. We think this is pure nonsense...