Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While traditional powerhouse Brown is still the favorite to roll to the championship, Harvard may have the talent to upset the defending champions. But mental lapses, such as the ones that occurred against UNH, are not the hallmarks of championship teams...
...Mental lapses in the second half enabled Fresno State to take the lead. Forced to play more aggressively on offense, Harvard was unable to prevent a breakaway goal toward the end of the game...
None of which means that Thomas or any other black who disagrees with racial preferences and hiring quotas is suffering from a mental disorder. No responsible therapist would make such a diagnosis without extensive personal contact with a patient, and certainly no journalist is qualified to do so. Moreover, many of the nation's leading black thinkers are expressing growing doubts about the ability of affirmative action to help the underclass...
...tried to convince them that my shortcomings were normal academic mental blocks, symptoms of only being able to concentrate on one thing at a time. That was always the explanation we would use in my family when we would find my father sitting at his computer while the water was running out of the sink and the mail was sitting in the freezer...
...hard to say what kind of person Donald Leroy Evans is," said Lusk. "He fits your description of a middle-aged Caucasian with above-average intelligence." A 1987 psychiatric evaluation quoted in the Washington Post found Evans to be suffering from a "lifelong history of behavioral difficulties and frank mental illness." Evans, who has been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment and once attempted to commit suicide, has a lengthy arrest record. Sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexual assault in 1986, he was released on parole last April. His main wish now, said his attorney, is to receive the death...