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...from 7,000 to as many as 16,000. The American Psychiatric Association did not recognize the disorder as a legitimate mental illness until 1980. "Multiple-personality disorder is a very, very rare condition. Because of TV talk shows, it has become the disease of the month and the plea of the year," says Dr. Darold Treffert, director of the Fond du Lac County Health Care Center, who is expected to testify for the defense. "It's a condition that's fairly easily induced in a very suggestible patient...
...stronger aspects. The cast members clearly relish their roles, and they bring a contagious energy to this play. Standouts include Roemer, who impresses both vocally and dramatically in her solo, "I Know a Girl," and Tombar, who gives a performance reminiscent of Louis Armstrong in High Society. His plea for sympathy, "Mr. Cellophane," is the show's outstanding musical moment...
When junk-bond king Michael Milken copped a plea last April, he disappointed everyone who had been hoping to see the white-collar trial of the decade. Now Milken is having his day in court, but it will be a quick one. In an unusual proceeding that began last week, federal Judge Kimba Wood will hear evidence about some of the 92 charges Milken did not admit when he pleaded guilty to six felony counts of securities fraud and other crimes. Prosecutors hope to offset the efforts of Milken's lawyers to cite his philanthropic activities as grounds...
Finding himself between a rock and a hard place, Tanner has tried to clear himself with everything from plea bargaining with the store owners to using public funds to distribute anti-porn literature from left-wing Christian groups. When I left Daytona in September, it was apparent that Tanner had realized that he was quickly losing ground...
...Kennedy School panel discussion, Graham Allison and Shirley Williams did indeed harshly criticize Western governments' stinginess in helping newly-democratic Central and Eastern Europe (and rightly so, I believe). But your paraphrase of Mr. Dienstbier's message as a plea to the West to "send more economic aid" is entirely misleading. Czechoslovaks do not want us to pay for their transition; they want to rebuild their country themselves, and they deserve enormous credit for this commitment...