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...would be justified--even when viewed in light of the most restrictive gun policy. Although it is rarely used, the capacity of police to legitimately use force shapes most, if not all, police contacts with citizens. Use of force, the threat of its usage, or its mere latent presence are important in enforcing the law, maintaining order, and settling disputes...
...second Kennedy assassination-almost two months to the day after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.-immediately prompted, at home and abroad, deep doubts about the stability of America. Many saw the unleashing of a dark, latent psychosis in the national character, a stain that had its start with the first settlement of a hostile continent. For the young people, in particular, who had been persuaded by the new politics of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy to recommit themselves to the American electoral system, the assassination seemed to confirm all their lingering suspicions that society could not be reformed...
...calls himself a "latent heterosexual" and says he has an intense desire to return to the womb-"anybody's." His father, he remembers, once worked in a factory but was replaced by a small gadget. His mother, he says, bought...
...notes that N.B.C.U.S.A. is not only the nation's largest black organization but a highly independent one as well. "This group could be the key force in political change in 1984 and beyond," declares Jackson. It remains to be seen whether Jemison will be able to galvanize the latent strength, political and spiritual, of the organization he waited so long to head...
Most psychologists agree that rape is not a form of mental illness but a behavior problem rooted in emotional immaturity. Most discount the theory that rapists are latent homosexuals. Rapists usually recoil from the idea. As one put it, "Raping a woman, at least that's normal." (Rape crisis centers report a rise in the number of calls they are getting from men who have been raped by other men. The victims are both gay and straight men, as are the rapists.) Ironically, most rapists are sexually naive and embrace conservative sexual attitudes...