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Marius' review was followed by a flurry of angry letters. And the prospect that the review could embarrass the vice president--or alienate constituents--was apparently enough to get Marius...
...psychiatry, was being investigated because of his unorthodox ideas and his choice of research topic. Mr. Dershowitz professed concern about the "chilling of academic freedom" resulting from the inquiry and he asked: "Will the next professor who is thinking about an unconventional research project be deterred by the prospect of having to hire a lawyer to defend his ideas?" He repeated this criticism in a front-page story that appeared in the Washington Post on August...
...jostle to see who can be toughest on crime, an amendment to deny some amenities to the nation's 95,000 federal prisoners is now part of the House version of the Republican-sponsored anti-crime bill. If it survives into the final version of the bill--an iffy prospect--the amendment would forbid such things as premium cable channels and R- or X-rated movies. Its sponsor, Representative Dick Zimmer of New Jersey, is also pushing for a law that would reach the nation's 959,000 state prisoners by denying federal prison money to any state that...
...addition to the unsettling threat of mano-a-mano violence, the ancestral environment featured periodic starvation, incurable disease and the prospect of being eaten by a beast. Such inconveniences of primitive life have recently been used to dismiss the Unabomber's agenda. The historian of science Daniel Kevles, writing in the New Yorker, observes how coarse the "preindustrial past" looks, once "stripped of the gauzy romanticism of myth." Regarding the Unabomber's apparent aim of reversing technological history and somehow transporting our species back toward a more primitive age, Kevles declares, "Most of us don't want to live...
...coaches and athletes alike say the prospect of competing in '96 as the home team has been a huge incentive to stay in the sport. The old-timers, says Peggy Liddick, one of Miller's Oklahoma City coaches, "have a special bond. They're like sisters. They were very young in '92. They really do appreciate each other." Given the coach hopping that is endemic in gymnastics, many of these young women have trained together, and all, of course, have competed countless times against one another. "I think it's great we've all stayed in this long," says Miller...