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...system has failed Bobby in just about every way possible," says Sean O'Brien, Shaw's pro bono lawyer and the director of the nonprofit Missouri Capital Punishment Resource Center. Notes Dr. Jonathan Pincus, chairman of Georgetown University's neurology department: "The greatest tragedy in this case is that he has a treatable disorder. If he had been diagnosed and treated properly, two victims would probably be alive, and he would not be on death...
True schizophrenia patients often hide their symptoms and insist that nothing unusual is happening. It takes skill to identify some kinds of insanity. Last December, Shaw's pro bono lawyer Sean O'Brien brought in Georgetown neurologist Jonathan Pincus to interview Bobby...
...filled the rooms, wandered the greenery, searched for mates, did a locust number on the four Lucullan meals a day (including a midnight snack) and cheered the tummlers, a Yiddish word for exuberant entertainers. The performers themselves were a nation of immigrants: David Daniel Kaminski, Aaron Chwatt, Jacob Pincus Perelmuth, Morris Miller, Eugene Klass, Joseph Levitch, Milton Berlinger, Joseph Gottlieb. All are better known under their noms de borscht: Danny Kaye, Red Buttons, Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill, Gene Barry, Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle, Joey Bishop...
...heart attack; in Peterborough, N.H. A researcher in human reproduction who spent the first two-thirds of his career trying to help women overcome infertility, he became alarmed at the specter of world overpopulation and began working on a hormonal birth control method in the 1950s with Biologists Gregory Pincus and Min-chueh Chang. Because the pill they developed used two body substances, estrogen and progesterone, Rock, a daily Mass-going Roman Catholic, believed the church might accept it as a "natural" family-planning device. When Pope Paul VI banned all forms of artificial contraception in a 1968 encyclical, Rock...
...profits during 1980 and 1981 and then dodging taxes on the money by transferring the earnings overseas. Last week's settlement will allow the two companies to resume operating in the U.S. But criminal charges of tax evasion, fraud and racketeering still stand against Rich and his partner, Pincus ("Pinky") Green. The two, both 50, fled from New York City to their headquarters in Zug, Switzerland, in September 1983, only a few weeks before federal investigators brought 51 separate charges against them...