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What's particularly troubling about the Pixley case is that the judges involved are not rogue thinkers. Courts across the country routinely return children to their biological parents despite prior neglect and abuse. In April a judge in New York ruled to reunite a five-year-old boy with his mother, who had killed her other son in 1994. In Figsboro, Va., a woman was allowed to retain custody of her eight-month-old daughter despite being charged with fracturing the infant's skull; the baby was stabbed to death on Mother's Day, and the mother has now been...
...research spurious, its statistics suspect and its conclusion--that "allowing law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns will save lives"--dangerous. Part of what's threatening about the book is its author: John Lott, a wonkish University of Chicago economist who has never been an N.R.A. member and prior to writing the book did not own a gun. (He has since bought a .38-cal. pistol.) "If I had really strong views about guns," he says, "I wouldn't have waited until I was 40 to write this...
...culture of pressure--and shame--dominates the educational and professional ladders. The consequence of a fall from grace can be suicide, seen not as the ultimate tragedy but as an understandable or inevitable decision if linked to recent failure. Even prior to the news of Asia's financial crisis, the number of white-collar suicides was quite high. According to the National Police Agency, suicides in Japan in 1996 totaled about 23,000, more than double the number of traffic fatalities. Meanwhile, the reluctance to admit there are indeed problems has seeped onto the economic bargaining table in the most...
...plausibly surprise. It's not its only pleasure. Lange's work is wonderfully controlled, her hidden passions expressed with glancing delicacy. And stage director Des McAnuff, making a smashing film debut, subtly poises the endless, deadly ironies of this tale against the efficiently suggested feverishness of Paris just prior to the revolution of 1848. Rarely has a period film spoken with such energy and immediacy to our impatient modernism...
...Monica stands by her prior declaration of innocence "at this time," says Ginsburg. "If the President of the United States did this--and I'm not saying that he did--I think he's a misogynist." JAN. 25 Ginsburg changes course: Monica is now willing to "tell all" in exchange for immunity...