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...warned about the political consequences of this theory, we feel that these developments can neither be ignored nor minimized. We, and others, have pointed out that the pernicious social conclusions of the theory are based on a faulty methodology and a misuse of the scientific evidence. American sociobiologists cannot dismiss the European political applications of their work as distortions of a sound scientific doctrine. Rather, these applications are the logical extension of a theory whose very assumptions reflect the political perspective of the sociobiologists...
...self-delusion to see the Palestinians as unreasonable terrorists and dismiss the issue. Conditions of hopelessness and despair encourage violent response, and the solution lies not in turning a cold shoulder but in soothing Palestinian ills. If they are to be made more reasonable and less violent, it must be by talking with them instead of closing our ears to what they are saying...
...rapists rather than through abstract discussion the psychology of this sort of criminal, which centers on the need to victimize and abase. It also reveals, as no other film ever has, the horror visited upon the woman. No one who witnesses this scene will ever be able to dismiss the subject casually...
Mexico's "guided democracy" has become so ossified that presidential election campaigns every six years are little more than repetitions of what voters cynically dismiss as "the great paint job." P.R.I. campaign workers plaster every available wall, hut and bridge with absurd slogans (TO NATIONALIZE IS TO DECOLONIALIZE) that make a mockery of the party's claim to be revolutionary. In fact, the campaign is a sham: since the reign of Calles (1924-28) every P.R.I, nominee has been personally selected by his predecessor. The decision is made after secret consultations with a tiny clique of labor leaders, senior civil...
Nevertheless, the doctor does not dismiss specualtion that the most recent set of worries-dismal ratings in the polls, Soviet troops in Cuba, allegations of cocaine use by Hamilton Jordan, the challenge of Senator Edward Kennedy for his party's presidential nomination-might have undermined Carter's strength and played some part in his Catoctin fallout. More significant, however, was the fact that the President was doggedly attempting to improve his time; he was trying to cut a full four minutes off his best previous time on the punishing Catoctin course, from 50 minutes to 46. Many runners...