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...Snezhnevsky's view, many people experience nervous breakdowns as children or adolescents, and think they recover completely. But their schizophrenia remains latent and can blossom 20 or 30 years later-often in the form of political dissidence. Exiled Writer Vladimir Bukovsky, now at Cambridge University, notes: "This means nobody knows whether he is schizophrenic or not unless Professor Snezhnevsky diagnoses it." That theory has proved convenient to the KGB, particularly since Soviet law allows for compulsory commitment by the courts when the accused has been classified as mentally ill. Indeed, the proceeding may be held without the dissident because...
...society's three objectives, displayed for all on a poster hung in the Quest bookstore downstairs, are to "form a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity... to encourage the study of comparative religions, philosophy and science, and to investigate the unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent...
...upon Japan and Germany, but in stead helped to rebuild them, turning them at last, ironically, into the real economic victors of war. In the nuclear era, revenge may be too hairy a form of redress and self-gratification to be endured. Yet a cautionary super-revenge, in the latent form of a cataclysmic threat, is the governing principle of the nuclear age. Revenge, of course, some times achieves an air of respectability, of Realpolitik, if it is called retaliation or, even more innocently, response-as in "nuclear response." The global balance of power is maintained by a threat...
Third place will likely go to one of the Los Angeles schools. UCLA, with Olympic gold medalist Brian Goodell and junior college transfer Bill Barrett leading the way, trounced USC for second at the PAC-10 meet, but any Peter Daland-coached group with as much latent talent as the Trojans cannot be discounted...
Bush, who narrowly won last month's Iowa caucus, said that even if he defeats former California Gov. Ronald Reagan in the New Hampshire face-off, Reagan will not be finished. "Reagan has latent strength in the West," he said...