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Britain is a small island, with an elite whose members all seem to know each other. Proof, if needed, came at a recent London performance of Gethsemane, David Hare's new play about rot in British politics. The audience was silver-haired and well-heeled. On some seats lay coats by Hare's fashion-designer wife, Nicole Farhi. And sitting in the audience was Lord Levy, a prominent Labour Party fund raiser who is Jewish and made his millions in pop music. Levy is widely seen as the model for the play's Otto Fallon, a Labour Party fund raiser...
...level of true psychopathy. In the popular mind, psychopathy is an impossibly broad term that more or less means crazy. But psychologists see it differently and have devoted no shortage of energy to defining just what the condition is. The researcher who may have come closest is psychologist Robert Hare of the University of British Columbia, author of numerous books including Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work...
Many criminals, Hare explains, suffer from some form of antisocial personality disorder, a condition that causes them to behave impulsively and aggressively and generally commit violent crimes. Within that group, a subset also exhibits psychopathy, a coldness and lack of empathy for the people they hurt. They are the ones most likely to commit repeat violent crimes. The smallest group of all is the people who suffer from psychopathy alone - indifference to others, without the violence. These, says Galietta, are the "white-collar psychopaths." And that group is an incubator of Madoffs...
...Flores and McLeod received nearly 41 percent of first-place votes, with 1,493, compared to slightly over 39 per cent and 1,427 votes for rivals Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 and Alneada D. Biggers ’10. After votes were redistributed according to the Hare-Clark voting system, in which students cast single transferable votes, the Flores ticket had 1,791 votes compared to 1,634 for Schwartz...
...percent of first-place votes, with 1,493, slightly over 39 per cent and 1,427 votes for rivals Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 and Alnead D. Biggers ’10. After votes were redistributed according to the UC’s system, known as Hare-Clark, in which students cast single transferable votes, the Flores ticket had 1,791 votes compared to 1,634 for Schwartz...