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...same seeing [alternative movies] at home," said Mike V. Dain, who lives in Boston and frequents the Brattle a couple of times a month. "It's a communal experience. The people who come here are devoted fans...
Indeed, we have hosted Yasser Arafat in our communal "house," and, knowledgeable as we were of his bestial history, we should never have afforded him the distinction of a "welcome guest." When all is said and done, on Tuesday, October 24, Harvard "wined and dined" a murderer...
...shocking conditions in nursing homes circa 1970. Woefully undertrained workers strapped patients to hard-backed chairs, fed them cheap diets and kept them in a whimpering state of sedation. There were tales of urine-soaked hospital gowns and of false teeth collected at night and thrown into a communal vessel that patients had to fish through in the morning. All this and more was documented by the National Academy of Sciences in 1986. The next year Congress passed legislation to address decades of abuse of the elderly by profiteering nursing-home operators...
...standing before each one for minutes at a time, as if to swallow it whole and take it with them to ward off their fears of being alone. For, strangely, in his bleakrless came a certain comfort; seeing those 59 pictures together with hundreds of people made his solitude communal. And knowing that we were not as lonely as those in his pictures also gave a certain comfort...
...This communal catastrophe is beginning to breed unconventional and disquieting responses. A forthcoming article in the Yale Law Review by Paul Butler, a law professor at George Washington University, reports that inner-city juries are increasingly acquitting black men they know to be guilty. "They do a cost/benefit analysis," he says. "They look at this person and decide, 'As a community, we're better off with this person out of jail than in jail.'" The practice is probably legal under a common-law doctrine allowing jurors to override the law if their own sense of justice demands...