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...badly damaged in the original quake and a heavy (7.5 on the Richter scale) second temblor 36 hours later. Many of the buildings that came crashing down were constructed of brick or concrete rather than structural steel. That led to charges by several local critics last week that corrupt building practices had been a major factor in the calamity. The government promised an investigation...
...corrupt and corrupting profession," Dershowitz told the crowded courtroom and spill-over audience watching on closed-circuit television...
...therapist to a restaurant and was not sure who should pick up the tab. "Dreams of this kind are common when patients respond therapeutically to therapist-madness," Langs writes. "The patient wonders whether he should not receive the fee . . ." In another case that Langs studied, the patient of a corrupt psychotherapist improved for a time and married successfully, apparently in an unconscious attempt to show the therapist what a life of integrity would look like. "The patient obtains a great deal of hidden satisfaction in functioning as a therapist to his or her own therapist," says the author...
...defendants are all members of an anti-black, anti-Semitic, anti- Government hate group known variously as the Order, the Silent Brotherhood, the White American Revolutionary Army and the Aryan Resistance Movement. A 93- page indictment charges 23 members with violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a statute the Government has hitherto used against organized crime and terrorists. Ten of the accused had pleaded guilty, and an eleventh changed his plea to guilty last week; at . least eight of these have drawn 20-year prison terms. One of the 23 has never been caught, and another...
...potential for redemption through experience and common sense. Each reflects the controlling intelligence of the film's writers and director, who want to celebrate the antic resourcefulness of American individualism while satirizing the gaseous platitudes that are too often used to motivate and justify it and sometimes corrupt it. Their work may have the broad manner (and the marketing strategy) of a teen pic, but do not be misled. One has to have lived through the early '60s to appreciate what a good, smart comedy Volunteers...