Word: misbehaviors
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This could mean another reversal in the press's thinking about whether to report on politicians' sexual misbehavior. Traditionally the American press has not dealt in such stuff. J.F.K.'s goings-on are the leading example. The ostensible reason was that private conduct is irrelevant. The real reason was nearly the opposite: fear that voters would find it all too relevant and might actually vote against a guy just because he was cheating on his wife. That, of course, would be wrong and unfair. So journalists protected democracy from itself by denying the mass of citizens dangerous information they weren...
...able to go back to the practice of not reporting such matters, on the legitimate ground that people really don't seem to care. For better or worse, it seems to be the journalists who are making way too much of a Victorian fuss about the President's alleged misbehavior and the rest of the citizenry who are taking it all in stride and keeping it in perspective...
...also removed all of the bedroom doors to allow sergeants to monitor activities more closely. But with the recruits' doors gone, lights-out in barracks also meant lights-out in the halls if the recruits were to get any sleep. The increased darkness, however, only allowed for more sexual misbehavior. "It hurts morale," a male recruit said privately, "when you've got boyfriends and girlfriends, and not just soldiers, sprinkled around the unit...
...become a catch-all for misbehavior of all kinds, and rightly, no stereotypical ADD child emerges from the many who have been labeled as such. The only pattern is a rising level of children subdued by medication, attended to by science rather than cared for by the human resources to whom they cry out the most...
...camp, many of which were as much due to nurture as to nature. He has been on Ritalin since age four, and has no recollection of a time when he was an individual apart from his disorder and his medication. When Brad's parents were notified of his misbehavior, they decided to increase the amount of medication he received...