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...those mistakes may have exacerbated his condition. But he shouldn't leave there." Some state lawyers have privately argued that by holding Yoder for so long, the state is turning him into a martyr. But Hardy and Vallabhaneni point out that Chester will be blamed if Yoder is freed and hurts someone...
Yoder's case is unusual but perhaps not unique. About 22,000 Americans are held against their will in state psychiatric hospitals. Since the 1960s, many of those institutions have closed, and hundreds of thousands of patients have been freed, some of them improvidently. Many ended up in jail; others are homeless. A few mentally ill people have committed homicides after being discharged, and those killings have won vast media coverage. In response, seven states have passed laws making it easier for authorities to force psychiatric treatment. Recently the nation tried to make sense of Andrea Yates, who drowned...
...that, you get pictures. The black and white illustrations of "Epileptic" have a simple, cartoonish line without any cross-hatch shading. Instead, David B. puts the visual richness into mixing the literal with the metaphorical. Anything goes with comix. It's partly what makes them special. Freed from literal representation, the artist's only obligation is to meaning and David B. takes full advantage of this. People grow and shrink, or occasionally appear as animals. Backgrounds become patterns that reflect the mood of the scene rather than the location. One remarkable panel shows Jean-Christofe's head surrounded...
...during the night by Keith Glenn Hescock, 42. After allegedly assaulting her at his home and chaining her to a bed, Hescock went to his day job as a traveling tool salesman. The girl found a nearby fire extinguisher, beat at the chain for several hours to break it, freed herself and then, perhaps because her family's home line was busy, called her parents' office. The employee who answered picked her up and took her home. Police staked out Hescock's house, but after engaging them in a car chase and shoot-out, Hescock shot himself in the head...
...which must be precisely what Prime Minister Blair is thinking as he evaluates this new challenge to his Labour government's control by an Australian-born U.S. citizen. Labour has long courted Murdoch, winning endorsements from some of his papers before the last two elections. A new bill that freed Murdoch to buy terrestrial television station Channel 5 was seen by some as a sweetener to get Murdoch's support, or at least neutrality, when the government announces its decision on euro entry by June 2003. If so, it was only sweet enough to make Murdoch hungry for a fight...