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Most of the approximately 100 political prisoners in the United States are draft resisters, while a substantial minority are civil rights cases. "Political imprisonment is a lot less heinous in this country than in others because we don't think that prisoners are being tortured and starved here as they are in Latin American counties," White explains...
...children. A New York study of nine juvenile murderers, including a girl who had chopped a victim to pieces with a machete knife, showed that all nine had been routinely beaten by their parents. Other youths who commit and later talk about the most heinous crimes with peculiar indifference "don't seem to realize they are putting a knife into another human being," says Willard Gaylin, professor of psychiatry and law at Columbia University. Gaylin believes this insensibility stems from a lack of identity with anyone else or with the community. "These kids have been so brutalized that there...
...theme. I wish you had given some space to the query "How true is the New Testament picture of the Pharisees?" The holy season would have been a good time to set the record straight on the Pharisees, whose vilification in Christian holy writ constitutes one of the most heinous libels in history, as many Christian scholars are now attesting...
Vietnam was the central focus of the 1972 election; Watergate never surfaced as the issue that would sway the vote. Part of the reason that Watergate stayed in the background during the campaign was that George McGovern chose to talk about Nixon's more heinous crimes. The other reason the break-in didn't change the election's outcome was that a systematic effort to contain the matter worked better than even Nixon could have hoped...
...sort of gorgeous ritual blaze of self-destruction that besets Southern-Gothic houses in Southern-Gothic novels. But Martha and Lucas qualify, in Miss Douglas' phrase, as "celebrators of life"-and so does she, dramatizing with all the reason and passion at her command the bland and heinous modern crime of burying one's ancestors before they are dead...