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...everyone is thrilled about it. Lonely-hearts clubs have been around forever, but the flashy electronic cousin of the mail-order bride catalog has led to as many as 6,000 marriages annually and raised a few eyebrows. Early this month, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service sent Congress a report recommending that there be stricter regulation and that foreign women be properly warned about the potential for exploitation. Leni Marin, of the Family Violence Prevention Fund in San Francisco, says some matchmakers market foreign women as obedient and submissive. "If you're obedient, then you're a willing...
...know a discipline has arrived when its detractors start depicting themselves as radicals assaulting the intellectual status quo. This fall John Horgan (The End of Science) will come out with a book that, according to its publisher's catalog, "boldly contradicts all standard views" of psychology, "including those of Steven Pinker and E.O. Wilson." Ah, vindication at last...
...name of psychoanalysis. His fundamental idea--that all humans are endowed with an unconscious in which potent sexual and aggressive drives, and defenses against them, struggle for supremacy, as it were, behind a person's back--has struck many as a romantic, scientifically unprovable notion. His contention that the catalog of neurotic ailments to which humans are susceptible is nearly always the work of sexual maladjustments, and that erotic desire starts not in puberty but in infancy, seemed to the respectable nothing less than obscene. His dramatic evocation of a universal Oedipus complex, in which (to put a complicated issue...
According to the course catalog, severalcourses taught by professors eligible to attendFaculty meetings are held during the prohibitedtime period, including several economicstutorials...
...being driven to a higher level of understanding through already-familiar realms of academia. A much more attractive and positive assumption would require us to abandon the view that Harvard students always look for the easy way out and sometimes take a course with a familiar title in the catalog in order to advance to a higher level of understanding within the particular subject...