Word: commital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appreciate how crazy he is, but not crazy enough to be legally insane. The defense strategy for his trial, which began this week, had appeared to be set. His lawyers had planned to argue that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, which made him incapable of forming the intent to commit a premeditated crime. But paranoid schizophrenics typically resist being labeled mentally ill, and Kaczynski proved to be all too typical. On Dec. 18 he wrote a letter to complain to U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell Jr., who quickly summoned Kaczynski and his lawyers to his chambers to discuss Kaczynski...
...Daily Spin "Girls of 12,13 are falling pregnant. If girls commit suicide because of the virginity tests, they would have committed suicide anyway. It is not that important." -- Isilay Saygin, Turkey's cabinet minister in charge of women and family affairs, defending "virginity tests" after five teenage girls swallowed rat poison rather than submit to them...
...tremors beneath Japan's financial institutions got so bad last week that dithering politicians finally had to act. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.) managed to commit itself to a controversial, publicly financed $80 billion scheme to shore up the banks. But that is as far as it got. If Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto does not produce a rapid consensus on exactly how the money will be used or what drastic measures the government will take to resuscitate the economy, plummeting confidence will batter the markets further...
...staff editorial, "After Grapes: Where Is Our Conscience?", The Crimson editors commit the unfortunate sin of condescension. The entire grape referendum has seen too much of this disgusting attitude toward students. Perhaps with the end of the referendum it's time for it to stop. It was bad enough when Harvard Dining Services started referring to the grape issue as the "Great Grape Referendum." "Look, look," the capital letters in the title seemed to be saying, "I am the most important political issue in the world." Students were told that this issue should take precedence over all others just...
Index Funds in Disguise Why aren't your mutuals beating the market? Fund managers don't have the guts to commit to a plan. Why so-called "managed" funds are often kitchen-sink hodgepodges--and why they're no better than those index funds you were trying to avoid. In Money Daily...