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...depressed to get out of bed. Darkly, I reach down to the pile of debris on the floor and root through empty ice-cream containers, half-empty cigarette cartons and thick Windows 98 self-help books to find what I'm looking for: that new Carnegie Mellon University study suggesting that using the Internet can cause isolation, loneliness and depression. Whatever, I sigh, and roll over for another nap. But later, when I wake up and go online, I can't seem to shake the thing. The researchers purport to have measured, over the course of two years, the deleterious...
Your chart showing Richard Mellon Scaife's support of various conservative causes [NATION, June 22] mentioned the political biography I wrote on the President, Boy Clinton. I must protest your description of it as an "attack book." That sounds terribly grim. Far more accurate was your reference a few months back to the American Spectator as a "gleefully anti-Clinton magazine" [Nation, April 13]. That captured the spirit. Somehow, political ineptitude can be as amusing as it is dismaying. R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR., Editor in Chief American Spectator Arlington...
...feel sorry for you, Richard Mellon Scaife. You are squandering your money on a constellation of devious schemes intended to sabotage the politics and people who do not please you. Nice try, wrong country. You and your Machiavellian ambitions would be right at home in any Third World country run by a dictator. There you could hand out lighter pay envelopes to much cruder henchmen to do your bidding. MEL ZALOUDEK River Grove...
Other critics raise questions about whether Lott massaged the numbers. One arcane quarrel: for statistical purposes, Lott dropped from his study sample any counties that had no reported murders or assaults for a given year. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University took Lott's figures and analyzed crime rates only in counties with populations above 100,000. Using this yardstick, right-to-carry laws reduced aggravated assaults 67% in Maine--but increased murders 105% in West Virginia. Still other critics note that in concealed-carry states, only about 2% of people have even bothered to get a permit, and they tend...
...most outlying ripples. (He first got noticed in 1996 after he took a deposition from John Huang, the fund raiser embroiled in the Clinton money scandals.) Over the past year, his reach has grown considerably, in part because Judicial Watch received $550,000 in 1997 from Richard Mellon Scaife's Carthage Foundation (see chart). Scaife is the Clinton-hounding Pittsburgh billionaire who subsidizes Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., the school where Starr planned to assume two deanships until complaints concerning a potential conflict of interest caused him to change his mind. Scaife also made close to $1 million in payments...