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...TIME magazine, Reagan's daughter Patti Davis published a plea to keep Hinckley in custody, saying "I believe [he] knew full well what evil is; I believe he was drawn to it, excited by it. I believe he that he still may be." As Davis points out in her essay, the insanity defense is tricky, because as it strips the accused of his guilt, it also negates his personhood. The dilemma that follows pits the intellectual capacity of the individual against that of his "healers": Hinckley's doctors are confident their patient has exorcised his demons - but the only person...
...terror against blacks. All across the former Confederacy, blacks who were suspected of crimes against whites--or even "offenses" no greater than failing to step aside for a white man's car or protesting a lynching--were tortured, hanged and burned to death by the thousands. In a prefatory essay in Without Sanctuary, historian Leon F. Litwack writes that between 1882 and 1968, at least 4,742 African Americans were murdered that...
...Olympic Airways founder, in headlines 3. Fenway great's nickname 4. "Who's on first?" team member 5. Mickey's creator 6. Garth Brooks' Touch 'Em __ Foundation 7. Allen W. Dulles once headed it 8. Significant person? 9. Like Moses, Pope saw the Promised Land from here 10. Essay page 11. Abdoulaye __, who has been elected Senegal's President 16. "That feels good!" 20. Meth. or Luth. 21. Sudan's rebel gp. 22. Where the Eagle landed 23. They're backing 15-Across 24. Wing: prefix 25. They expect to boost output 27. Venetian blind 29. Shi'ite leader...
...Essay 50 pages. The relation of chemistry to medicine...
...prowess in a way that terrifies post-feminist whites. Indeed, Roger Too White, the Uncle Tom-style lawyer in A Man in Full, loses his blackness by allowing white society to emasculate him. Sexual temptation is the urge within him to return to his own race. In his 1970 essay on "Radical Chic," Wolfe described a fundraiser for the Black Panthers at the Park Avenue digs of composer Leonard Bernstein '39, a congregation of "white liberals nibbling caviar while signing checks for the revolution with their free hand". he wrote. For Wolfe, it is clear that guilt-ridden whites have...