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...been involuntarily committed to a Chester, Ill., asylum, the Chester Mental Health Center. Yoder, it may surprise you to learn, would rather be in prison. He fought a long legal battle during the 1990s to get himself prosecuted for sending menacing letters to people like Playboy CEO Christie Hefner and the late M&M tycoon Forrest Mars Sr. because he wanted to be sentenced to a fixed term rather than remain committed indefinitely. He lost that battle, so to walk free, he must now convince an Illinois court either that he is not mentally ill or that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Call Him Crazy | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...only for semiliterate geeks or deviants--kids who haven't grown up yet. But comics fans pray the success of Spider-Man will not be a fad and people will become more interested in buying comics than plush toys and video games. Comics educate as they entertain. JOHN HEFNER Cabin John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 10, 2002 | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...looked around wondering who these people were. How could they simply be repeating the same things over and over again, each party unwilling to listen to the other? And why were they so hot? Then I realized that I was not in section; I was surrounded by Hugh Hefner and several beautiful women at the Playboy Mansion...

Author: By Vali D. Chandrasekaran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: {Untitled} | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

...women were engaged in a public policy debate. I listened because, as I mentioned before, they were quite stunning. Besides, I was at the Playboy Mansion and this was their editorial page. What kind of guest would I be to demand supporting evidence for their dictums? Hugh Hefner was very handsome and polite. We all hit it off, but it soon became clear the women loved Mr. Hefner and myself in different ways; with me it was sexual...

Author: By Vali D. Chandrasekaran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: {Untitled} | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

...those foldout bunnies represented something of the same diversion that we see in the diversionary journalistic spectacles of the last ten years. The real purpose of sex is not to put a grin on Hefner's goofy face, but to accomplish the relentless ongoing business of genetic reproduction. And, one suspects, the real story of what's going on in America has nothing to do with Skeletor and the missing intern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hefner Effect and Serious Journalism | 8/30/2001 | See Source »

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