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...while nearly everyone can agree that the conditions at these youth facilities need to be changed, there is much less consensus about how best to go about doing that. "Nobody said this was going to be easy," says New York State assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, an Ithaca-area Democrat who helped uncover a gross lack of oversight of the entire system. "This is like turning the Queen Mary around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Reforming the Juvenile-Justice System Is So Hard | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...been aided in his deception by friends or the Serbian government. But his ability to so completely transform himself--and so completely convince those who lived and worked alongside him--is more difficult to explain. In his study on the psychology of mass murder, The Nazi Doctors, Robert Jay Lifton wrote, "No individual self is inherently evil, murderous or genocidal. Yet under certain conditions virtually any self is capable of becoming all of these." In Karadzic's case, the reverse was true. The warlord charged with ordering the massacre of more than 7,000 people in Srebrenica became a harmless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

That spirituality can coexist with the darkest of impulses is a sad but simple fact of humanity. The best defense, Lifton wrote, is "equally pervasive empathy, fellow feeling, toward all other human beings." To the victims of Karadzic's cruelty, though, that may seem like more than such a man deserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...conspiracy writer, David Lifton, offered a way out of these inconvenient findings: in his 1981 book, Best Evidence, he contended that conspirators had altered the President's body to conceal evidence of an entry wound from the front. Others note that Kennedy's brain has not been examined by anyone, except superficially by the autopsy doctors. Robert Kennedy did not turn it over to the National Archives with other autopsy evidence in 1966. He presumably did not want it preserved as a grisly artifact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Assassination: Did the Mob Kill J.F.K.? | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...well can be experienced by anyone who wants it badly enough. In ways big and small, the French joyfully share their country's beauty, culture, food and wine with anyone who comes here with an open mind and heart. A big merci beaucoup to both Scott and Mayle. Diane Lifton Saignon, France

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outstanding European Individuals | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

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