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...Mild-mannered, polite and genial, Payne’s personality is a closer fit to an altar boy than a defensive end. The only giveaway to his true persona is his 6’3, 230-lb frame...

Author: By Alex M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love Story | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

...otherwise polite chit-chat with Bailey C. Gonzalez ’04, he couldn’t resist noting how much she reminds him of Tanya Harding, former Olympian, assault co-conspirator and star of Fox’s celebrity female boxing. Levinson, who suffers from a mild case of Tourrettes, was surprised when Gonzalez didn’t take the compliment as it was intended. “I simply meant that she is a strong and determined woman,” says Levinson. Apparently not strong and determined enough; a club-wielding Gonzalez was only able to fracture...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy | 11/20/2003 | See Source »

...that reason, it may not always be worth pulling the pharmacological rip cord, particularly when symptoms are relatively mild. Child psychologists point out that often nonpharmaceutical treatments can reduce or eliminate the need for drugs. Anxiety disorders such as phobias can respond well to behavioral therapy--in which patients are gently exposed to graduated levels of the very things they fear until the brain habituates to the escalating risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicating Young Minds | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...possible explanation, say the researchers, is that whites get better health care. Other possibilities include an unidentified genetic component and the fact that two related risk factors--complications from diabetes and hypertension--are also more prevalent among blacks. The message for African Americans--and their doctors--is that mild kidney disease should be treated aggressively, before it becomes a life-threatening illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Kidney Troubles In Black And White | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...hero of Yellow Dog, such as he is, is a mild-mannered and dutiful husband named Xan Meo. For Xan, 47, a Londoner, "marriage is a sibling relationship--marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest." But after a mysterious stranger cracks Xan's skull in a bar fight, he changes. He becomes primitive, abusive, constantly battling volcanic surges of rage and horniness. The new Xan is a man who "seldom saw a woman of any age whose bathwater he would have declined to drink." His life becomes a struggle to hang on to the norms of civilized behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Good Man Goes Bad | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

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