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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, there's the mental factor. Right now, Harvard is playing its best basketball of the season (in case the NCAA selection committee didn't notice); UNC might be playing its worst...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: Believe | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

Last week's murder, in turn, stokes a national debate about recidivism among sexual offenders. The Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of a Kansas law allowing the state to confine violent sexual criminals in mental hospitals beyond their prison terms, citing no mental illness other than a predisposition to similar crimes. The case is not abstract: Kansas is currently holding multiple-sex-crimes offender Leroy Hendricks, 62, whose sentence has expired but who has testified that only death can prevent him from molesting again. During oral arguments, several Justices seemed to share the concerns of critics like Harvey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A RECURRING NIGHTMARE | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...public role as an outspoken homosexual. In fact, the narrator seems unaware of the fate of the real Paul Michel until his Cambridge girlfriend tells him that Michel was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic in 1984 and has been held ever since in one or another French mental institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A HOST OF DEBUTS | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...against the bill because mainstream psychological opinion considers transgenderism a mental illness," Mitby said. "It would be wrong for the University to recognize in a non-discrimination clause a lifestyle that is generally detrimental...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: Council Member Receives Hate Mail | 3/1/1997 | See Source »

...Some professors will openly reveal their homosexuality," he said. "We will have made progress when [professors] will admit that they have a mental illness...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, | Title: U.C. Anti-Discrimination Proposal Discussed | 2/26/1997 | See Source »

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