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Whatever outsiders may say, both Brown and Wintour are securely established within the Conde Nast firmament. Each reportedly receives more than $200,000 a year, plus a $25,000 clothing allowance and plenty of pampering. During her stint in London, Wintour's husband David Shaffer, a prominent child psychiatrist, remained in New York City; the company paid for regular Concorde flights so they could visit each other. And some say Newhouse launched Traveler, Conde Nast's newest magazine, so that Brown's husband Editor Harold Evans would have something to do in New York...
...trade. Finally, on the left, some advocates contend that legalization would remove a severe threat to individual freedom that is posed by widespread drug searches, demands for wholesale testing and the pending use of the military to enforce drug laws. If the sale of narcotics is permitted, says Harvard Psychiatrist Lester Grinspoon, "there won't be the tremendous encroachment on our civil liberties. Are we willing to sacrifice our freedom for the small increase in the number of people who may use the drugs under a legalized system...
...second-degree murder in the 1986 death of Kathleen Holland, 17, Joseph Porto calmly confessed on videotape that he had strangled his girlfriend till "my hands got tired," then used his high school graduation tassel to finish the job. Porto, now 19, gave a similar account to a prosecution psychiatrist, explaining that he had exploded in jealous anger when Holland told him she wanted to date other boys...
...writings, Quigley likens astrology to medical diagnosis. A horoscope, she insists, "can tell you more about yourself than a psychiatrist can tell you after many hours of consultations on his couch." Bemoaning astrology's "lost respectability," Quigley once predicted that stargazing eventually "will be taught in the schools and colleges and will be considered a profession on a par with medicine...
...What happened to me in my book is talking on paper about big moments...It was a lot like lying on your own psychiatrist's couch," said Carpenter, who was also press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson...