Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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My recent debate with Jonathan Beckwith, under the auspices of the Harvard Medical Society, was intended to clarify some of the issues raised by his attack on the study of children with an extra Y chromosome (XYY). Your reporter unfortunately added to misconceptions about the study by stating that "A...
The problem arose not in the Boston study but in some sensational news articles, which misinterpreted other studies as showing that an extra Y chromosome predestined the bearer to criminal behavior. In fact, as I emphasized, the investigators in the local study have taken pains to reassure the parents that...
The defense's prize witness was Gerald Ford, who appeared on video tape. His account - given under oath in Washington - was the first testimony ever presented by a sitting President in either a criminal or civil case. Dramatically, Ford told how he had been confronted by Fromme. "I saw...
Three burnt-out cases smolder on a Caribbean island. Roche, 45, is an altruistic white whose support of black causes once earned him torture in a South African jail. Now he is the house humanitarian for a local corporation, supervising a back-to-the-land project. Its design: to drain...
Guerrillas is thus conspicuously short of heroes. Far from ennobling him, his suffering in prison has left Roche passive and chastened. "You must understand," he tells Jane, "I have always accepted authority." Jane talks fashionably about the world going up in flames, not because she cares for the wretched of...