Word: benignity
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...Chile almost half the citizenry still revere Pinochet as a strong leader who saved the nation from economic and political collapse after his bloody U.S.-backed 1973 coup, in which leftist President Salvador Allende was killed. Since becoming a Senator, he has tried to project a more benign, grandfatherly image. But in countries like the U.S., where Pinochet assassins executed one of his exiled opponents in 1976, he's unlikely to get much sympathy. "The international community is sending a very positive signal for democracy and human rights," says Palma. Retired Chilean army General Luis Cortes Villa, head...
...Boston Globe, explores how Rosen-type therapists saturated the psychoanalytic profession with bad science, unearned hubris and treatment that was patently dangerous to patients and families. Dolnick does not launch into a diatribe against all forms of psychotherapy. Although psychotherapy can be effective for treating neuroses (relatively benign emotional disorders), Dolnick targets psychoanalysts who tried to cure psychoses (marked disorders of perception or reality) with talk therapy alone. From the 1940s to the 1970s an aggressive cabal of psychoanalysts fit such a bill; they scoffed at the biological origins of mental illness, eschewed treating schizophrenia with drugs and thought that...
Yesterday's hack into the Lampoon's Web site elicited more than a few chuckles from us at Dartboard. Though the prank itself was rather simple and benign, it was clever and good-natured, encouraging the hapless 'Poonsters to aim for some clever retaliation...
Skeptical readers might interpret this as a misguided cry for juvenile delinquency. On the contrary, a quality prank is benign and can actually liven up the atmosphere of the College. Victims of a well-conceived prank may feel a bit sheepish at first, but they will eventually appreciate the attention and welcome the obligation to retaliate...
...issues which face us, especially when they make their decisions immediately after the events occur. Our country would have benefited greatly from further debate on the air strikes, for example, especially in light of recent evidence suggesting that the alleged Sudanese chemical weapons plant may have been merely a benign pharmaceutical factory. The moral questions arising from this type of aggressive counter-terrorism response are difficult to answer, and we will probably face them again in the near future. But, since the media portrayed the question simply as whether a majority of Americans would support Clinton's decision, the issue...