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...disgrace to our profession--that the press does a miserable job of reporting news about itself. We cover wars and Watergates, politics and pollution, riots and romance like rain on a flat rock. Yet we approach stories about our problems and our accomplishments with a shyness and discomfort that mock our reputation for toughness...
Still there is little doubt that continuing news stories about Watergate developments could have an impact on the trials. A recent Columbia University study, for instance, found that a mock panel of jurors exposed to prejudicial news stories was far more likely to convict than were jurors who had read only carefully neutral articles. Social Psychologist Alice Padawer-Singer, a co-director of the study, concluded that thorough questioning of potential jurors is critical to obtaining an impartial trial. The process not only eliminates most prejudiced candidates, she reports, but "sensitizes chosen jurors to all aspects of the case." That...
...seen) is inexplicably worth 300. Similar ratings are given for participation in group shows, appearance in art books, and the like. The figures seem to be plucked from the air. And so one trudges through what Bongard terms his "parameters," never meeting an iota of proof for these mock-objective confections of status, lost in a parody of credit rating...
...laboratory, many paranormalist investigators conduct experiments that mock rigorous and logical procedure. Claims are made, and the burden of proof is shifted to the doubter. Ground rules are laid down by the psychic subject and are all too eagerly accepted by his examiner. If the venture proves unsuccessful, a wide range of excuses are proffered: an unbeliever provided hostile vibrations; the subject was not receiving well; negative influences were present; testing rules were too restrictive. It is all reminiscent of the laws in Through the Looking-Glass, where people approach objects by walking away from them. And it creates...
...soon the dream turned upon her as if to mock her--Nature kicked her in the head. Kimberly was complaining of fearsome headaches. She laughed them off at first as migraines, and plowed herself with more pills, heavy doses of mild downers, and, as the pains grew persistent, barbituates. She was fighting them in bouts of up to two hours, once clutching a twisted face to her chest in a rigid fetal position on the floor. "She would have done anything, anything at all, to make the pain stop," Harley says. "The doctor couldn't tell what was wrong...