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...says. "I thought, 'God, what people.' They looked rather sleazy. Later on I realized it was because they hadn't slept. They were in terror." The Manns have been obsessed with the case since 1986, taking it as a personal crusade. In fact, they became participants in it. After Glenn Stevens, one of the prosecutors (played in the film by Joe Urla), quit the case because he felt the McMartins were being unfairly targeted, Myra Mann began to tape what would turn out to be 30 hours of interviews with him. She eventually turned over the tapes to the court...
Though producers treat these shows as mere entertainment, many viewers do not. A study involving 187 students conducted by communication professor Glenn Sparks of Purdue University found that exposure to such programs heightened belief in the paranormal. And when that exposure is constant, says University of Oregon psychologist Ray Hyman, each new repetition of a paranormal tale, even when related with a skeptical tone, "makes it more and more believable." Scientists are worried, too, that the proliferation of paranormal TV is contributing to the public's scientific illiteracy, which they regard as a national liability in a high-tech...
Thompson, a lifelong resident of Cambridge and the city's only Black representative to Beacon Hill, is by all accounts a quiet and unassuming person. "He's a thoroughly likable individual," says Glenn S. Koocher '71, host of "InsideOut," a weekly Cambridge political talk show. "He has never climbed the political ladder over the backs of anyone else...
...question several decades of federal legislation. Because the majority ruling in U.S. v. Lopez represents a fundamental break with the way the court has interpreted the delicate balance between state and federal authority for the past 60 years, "it may be the most important case of the decade," says Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee. "It redefines the nature of the Federal Government...
...stride during his 1960s tenure at the Saturday Evening Post. During his subsequent years in the pages of Time and in his own nimbly crafted nonfiction, Friedrich emerged as an elegant explicator of just about everything: Superman, insanity, the pop art of Hollywood, the high art of pianist Glenn Gould, the collapse of German democracy, the demise of a rose garden...