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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amazed that the prosecutor in John Hinckley's trial is trying to prove that Hinckley is sane. The only question is, did he commit a crime? A person's state of mind should not determine his guilt or innocence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 14, 1982 | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...very easy for graduate students to isolate themselves to the point where if they have a problem or become depressed, no one realizes it. Marshall says, adding that this may have been one of the underlying factors which led his predecessor, former graduate student council president Thomas McDonell, to commit suicide last December. This, Marshall contends, is "one of the biggest problems" in graduate life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GSAS: A Sum of the Parts | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

Appearing before a ten-member faculty-student committee on discipline. Napolitano did not deny the basic allegation; she challenged the conclusion that she had deliberately plagiarized. She insisted that all she had done was to commit a "technical error" while she was also rushing to complete her senior thesis. Several character witnesses spoke in her behalf, including the associate director of athletics and English Professor Hans Aarsleff, her senior thesis adviser. He told the committee: "The quality of her work and thought lias been of the highest caliber, her reliability and integrity have been un impeachable, and her willingness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Questioning Campus Discipline | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...answer echoes that of the American writer George Gilder in his book Naked Nomads: the single male is a kind of social misfit who earns half as much as married men and less than single women. In the U.S. he is more likely than a married man to commit suicide, become a criminal, be institutionalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: A Rousing Oui For Married Men | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

Homosexuals may have gained some ground with films like Making Love and Deathtrap, which proved that guys can make livings or commit murders just like heterosexuals. Partners takes back the ground gained, and then some...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Do Not Pass Go | 5/11/1982 | See Source »

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