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When the door to the sparse jury room slammed shut on Friday afternoon, this complex task seemed overwhelming. The psychiatrists who had testified for the prosecution and defense seemed to contradict one another totally. Said Maryland Copelin, 50, who works in a school cafeteria: "If the expert psychiatrists could not decide whether the man was sane, then how are we supposed to decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insane on All Counts | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...support, Lakian cites Ronald Reagan. Without endorsing any specific policies. Lakian notes that Reagan ran a state efficiently without any of the government background everyone said was so necessary. But to contradict Lakian's argument, one could begin with the same example. There is now almost completely bipartisan sentiment that Reagan's policies and his politics are flawed. While 67 percent of a governor's time may be allocated to management--duties he could realistically transfer to an experienced executive aide--the other third is the most significant. The imagination required to coordinate a general policy and vision, the necessary...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: No Experience Needed | 4/30/1982 | See Source »

...this world, acting to preserve, not to change. As Jesuit priest Jon Sobrino, a professor of theology at a Salvadoran university, says in the preface to his Christology at the Crossroads. "For some reason it has been possible for Christians, in the name of Christ, to ignore or even contradict fundamental principles and values that were preached and acted upon by Jesus of Nazareth." You have your Inquisition and your Crusades and your indulgence-selling and your papal imperialism, and in some ways you have a pretty grim picture. But from that legacy of dogma and rigidity, new ideas...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Beyond El Salvador | 12/17/1981 | See Source »

They wrote that their findings--that a majority of working-class men surveyed enjoy their jobs and have stable marriages, despite underprivileged backgrounds--contradict the belief that intelligence, social class and family situation determine adult success...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Study Indicates 'Ego Strength' Brings Success, Mental Stability in Adulthood | 11/13/1981 | See Source »

...really run from Tel Aviv. I would like for the American people to understand who really runs their Government. When we look at the American people, we admire them as peace-loving, intelligent, industrious and accomplished. But we see certain elected representatives who want to impose policies that contradict U.S. interests. This is unfair to the American people. Those, who opposed the deal should bear the responsibility before the American people and before history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans: The Greatest Danger | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

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