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...been embroiled with Iran since 1979, first with the hostage crisis, then with Iran-contra, now with the "axis of evil." And if the past is any indication, that entanglement--sour, multiform and intractable--is likely to last decades: it took four Presidents, two wars and several treaties to get us out of the bad relationship the last time we tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Template for Taming Iran | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...according to Chase, Kaczynski’s violent tendencies really emerged when he was subjected to severe psychological stress by Henry A. Murray, then a professor in Harvard’s Department of Social Relations. Murray’s experiments, called the “Multiform Assessments of Personality Development Among Gifted College Men” subjected undergraduates to military style interrogation, replete with harsh blinding lights and the psychological strong-arm tactics. Human subjects including Kaczynski were mentally battered as Murray tested the limits of “human character.” Soon Kaczynski “clearly...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: When Kaczynski Wore Crimson | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

Despite the heat and possibility of arrest, the contingent was large and multiform. Young, black-masked anarchists walked with an upside-down American flag in step behind families marching with young children...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protesters Gather in Philidelphia | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

...Called "Multiform Assessments of Personality Development Among Gifted College Men," the study consumed hundreds of hours of participants' time over three years...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Murray Center Seals Kaczynski Data | 7/14/2000 | See Source »

...Jones' cultish socialism, the spiritual and political were joined. In their terrific surrender, cultists reduce a multiform, contradictory world to cant formulas, and thus they become as dangerous as anyone whose head resounds with certainties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Lure of Doomsday | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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