Word: berlin
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...question the state's right to expose parolees to potentially dangerous side effects, and to prevent them from fathering children. They claim that determined ex-cons could reverse Depo-Provera's effects with other drugs--and that castration fails to treat the psychological roots of pedophilia. In fact, even Berlin, who favors the availability of voluntary chemical castration, opposes the California law. "There are many sex offenders for whom this is not going to be appropriate or useful," he says. "In effect, the legislators are practicing medicine without a license...
What changed was the perception of sex offenders as compulsive recidivists. For years, Larry Don McQuay begged the state of Texas to castrate him, saying he had molested some 200 children and would resume when released from prison. Experts like Fred Berlin, founder of the Sexual Disorders Clinic at Johns Hopkins University, noted that molesters may have a recidivism rate as high...
...Berlin cites domestic and European studies in which the rate fell below 15% when participants were chemically castrated. Such figures attracted California assemblyman Bill Hoge, who, dismayed when McQuay's plea was denied, introduced the California bill. Hoge talks of prevention, not punishment. "We're trying to stop the child molester from striking again, period," he says...
EXONERATED. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, influential Lutheran theologian hanged in 1945 for high treason against Germany; by a Berlin court, which ruled that a 1946 law nullifying Nazi-era judgments formally overturned the death sentence an SS tribunal had imposed. Bonhoeffer, whose writings held up the suffering Christ as a model of submission to God's will, had denounced Hitler as the "anti-Christ." He died at 39, one month before Germany surrendered...
...greatest track athlete of all time, of course, was Jesse Owens. The son of Alabama sharecroppers, Owens said his secret was, "I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible." In Berlin in '36 he began his assault on Hitler's Aryan-superiority theory with his victory in the 100, the first of his four gold medals. African Americans would in fact win all but three Olympic 100s from 1932 to 1968. The blessing of modern professionalism is that runners can keep running; Owens had to resort to racing thoroughbreds in exhibitions...