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...tempting to dismiss people with such paranoid beliefs as sick, demented individuals. But that doesn't explain the widespread membership in the U.S. in militias and other extremist groups. Experts in psychology and group behavior warn that anyone can fall prey to paranoia-given the right combination of peer pressure and repeated exposure to one viewpoint...
...come as a great surprise to some that the Medical School decided to conduct a peer review of Mack's work. Mack is quite proud of his Harvard affiliation. Harvard Medical School is, in all likelihood, a bit less enthusiastic. Presumably because Mack was besmirching the good name of Harvard (on the talk-show circuit, among other places) and because Mack's scholarly rigor was questionable, the peer review was put in place...
Jackson is without peer as a speaker on national issues. He has been a presidential candidate, has resolved international incidents, is founder of the Rainbow Coalition and is arguably the most visible and eloquent spokesperson for civil rights in our time. He is equally comfortable at Burke High School, the downtown jail, and the Harvard Law School. Surely, he deserved single billing at the Kennedy School that evening. Joseph W. Hogan Graduate Student in Biostatics
...latest fallout from the CIA's Aldrich Ames spy scandal could be a cutback in the privacy rights of national security employees. The Clinton Administration said it was drafting new rules that would let investigators peer more easily into the financial records of the 2 million or more civilian and military personnel with access to classified information, and also require those with top security clearances to file regular financial disclosure statements. This is in response to the CIA's failure to detect Ames' extravagant spending of his Soviet-supplied supplemental income...
...remarkable man. An ex-U.S. Marine. A Vietnam veteran. A Jesuit-trained polemicist with what he proudly claimed was the first college degree in futurism. In his workaday job, he was paid by SRI International to peer into the future and tell corporate clients how to prepare for the 21st century...