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...deterrence requires murderers to reckon at least roughly the probable costs of their actions. But if a killer is drunk or high on drugs, that kind of rational assessment might be impossible. Passions are often at play that make a cost-benefit analysis unlikely. Most killers are probably not lucid thinkers at their best. Henry Brisbon Jr. (see box) may be legally sane, but he is by ordinary standards demented enough to make a mess of any theory of deterrence. Says New York University Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam: "People who ask themselves those questions-'Am I scared...
...KONNER'S lucid style is easy to understand even when he ranges into a discussion of nerve cell structure or hormone levels in the blood. It is refreshing to hear from a scientist who can convey so many wide-ranging concepts, and many of them are not that simple so clearly and, at times humorously. In his discussion of the roots of language, he writes. "It is possible that some selection pressure for its emergence came from sexual selection operating on the courtship behavior of males that is to put it bluntly, the male who talked the best line...
...exaggeration to say that ignorance and arrogance define the American attitude toward Mexico. The exceptions have been a few lucid and generous men and a handful of poets, historians, teachers, scientists, humanists. None have appreciably influenced popular opinion, let alone Washington. This is regrettable: the perpetuation of this attitude is and will continue to be fatal for the U.S. and for the whole continent. It is hardly necessary to recall the case of Fidel Castro, whom Washington pushed toward Moscow (or to whom, at least, the U.S. gave the pretext for falling into Soviet arms). Without firing a shot...
...highly photogenic landscapes and people of Islam. It is a warm and sympathetic vision of the family of man, Muslim branch. In the past, Duncan's versatile lens has memorably captured war, American presidential politics and Pablo Picasso. The gaze he directs at Islam is, as always, lucid and superbly dramatic...
With this book, Timerman banks on that cacher For from the beige and brown title on the front to the author's picture on the back, the book is singularly devoid of anything new in the way of facts, valuable impressions or lucid argument. It comprises 167 pages of maundering glop whose gloppishness ought to be abundantly evident to the most fanatical West Bank settler as well as any bomb-chucking PLO member, provided both have a half a frontal lobe in working order...