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Bean-Bayog, who is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, is charged in a malpractice and wrongful death suit with manipulating a patient, Paul Loosen, into dependence on her and then abandoning therapy, causing him to become suicidal...
...thinning hair and coolly confident manner make him seem at least, well, 30 -- has put his stamp on the Today show in ways both predictable and unpredictable. The sometimes stodgy program (Good Morning America still gets more of the young female viewers most prized by advertisers) has started to loosen up, booking hipper musical guests like Color Me Badd, Marc Cohn and Curtis Stigers. It has also been more aggressive on breaking news: the morning after Mike Tyson's rape conviction, for example, Today devoted much of its first half-hour to the trial, with prosecuting attorney Gregory Garrison among...
Throughout history, Faludi argues, any time women tried to loosen their corsets and breathe more freely, they met with a suffocating counterattack. In the 1980s this backlash surfaced in the Reagan White House, the courts, Hollywood and, above all, the mass media, whose collective message to women went something like this: Feminism is your worst enemy. All this freedom is making you miserable, unmarriageable, infertile, unstable. Go home, bake a cake, quit pounding on the doors of public life, and all your troubles will go away...
...areas of industrial affairs, health, education and immigration. But labor policy proved far thornier. Eleven members signed a "social chapter" that expands E.C. authority over labor practices, including minimum wages, working hours and firings. Again Britain opted out -- hardly surprising, given the years of Thatcherite determination to loosen labor unions' stranglehold on the country's economy...
...Indeed, the piece emerges as a curious cross between Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius and the Who's Quadrophenia, but it lacks either the former's ecstatic fervor or the latter's nose-in-the-dirt realism. One waits in vain for the real McCartney to loosen his tie and do something a little rude, but the composer seems overwhelmed by the cassocks and surplices. His vital rock roots remain very much a band...