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RACHEL RIVER (PBS, June 21, 9 p.m. on most stations). Pamela Reed (Tanner '88) and Craig T. Nelson (Call to Glory) are featured in this brooding American Playhouse drama about small-town Minnesota...
Such solutions offer only illusory security. Parents contend that they cannot control their children. And most youngsters are eventually released from jail. Many return more hardened than before. "You need to break delinquents from the group where antisocial behavior is reinforced," explains psychologist Michael Nelson of Xavier University in Cincinnati. "But we're caught in a catch-22 dilemma. We place delinquents in reform schools, where they have more access to individuals who are poor role models...
...Central Park attack. Pornography, even the most gruesome kind, is commonplace in countries where the level of violence does not approach that in the U.S. The impulses behind the most brutal attacks are extremely complicated. "What we're seeing is a real distortion in personality development," says Michael Nelson, professor of psychology at Xavier University in Cincinnati. "It's not nice little neurotic people acting out problems...
...Rights has a surreal and oxymoronic ring. Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, better known as a patron of terrorism than a benefactor of humanitarian causes, has unaccountably set up a Swiss foundation to bestow an annual award on a Third World figure in the forefront of "liberation struggles." Last week Nelson Mandela, the jailed black South African leader, was named the first recipient of the prize and the $250,000 that goes with...
Answer: the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park, a 135-acre spectacular in the 44- sq.-mi. Walt Disney World near Orlando. With a lavishness the Sultan of Brunei might envy, Disney threw itself a premiere party last weekend and invited a few friends: Audrey Hepburn, George Burns, Willie Nelson, Kevin Costner, the Pointer Sisters, "Buffalo" Bob Smith and 6,000 journalists. The do, trumpeted in by an NBC special, was Disney's way of telling Hollywood, "Hey, guys, the magic is back. And we brought it. To Florida...