Word: mental
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William P. Moynihan '00 reports that a student named "[Edidiong N.] Ikpe '00 said it is possible [Janice] George was mentally unstable." ("Students Befriend a Fraud," news story, Sept. 24). What does mental instability have to do with deception? It is more likely that a psychologist would deceive someone. Attributing mental illness is an effective way to discredit someone as Ikpe has done...
...Sept. 18, 1996, The Crimson reported an Associated Press story about a shooting at Pennsylvania State University, noting of the 19-year-old woman suspect: "acquaintances said [she] had a history of mental problems and once spent time in a hospital...
What is the connection between mental illness and criminal violence? Is it fear in the minds of reporters, students and law enforcement authorities? All too often a person's alleged mental illness is used as evidence of guilt when charged with a crime. Bias against persons considered to be mentally ill pervades society...
...informants at overseas hospitals who watch for foreign officials checking in for treatment. It employs a dozen doctors and psychiatrists to review videos of world leaders for signs of physical or mental ailments: weight changes, pale skin, unsteady gait, even wrinkles on ear-lobes (one indication of heart problems). For example, agency physicians privately concluded that the late French President Francois Mitterrand had cancer more than a decade before he made it public. But on July 3, on the morning of the Russian presidential vote, the CIA received a call from Clinton aides: Why hasn't Boris Yeltsin been seen...
...mental breakdowns in the second and third quarter," junior goalie Ed Chen said. "But we came back, and we proved that we can come back, and we proved that we can come back as a team and pull together...