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...were 60% of the inmate population, became a dominant force in many cellblocks. It "helped the white-supremacy groups recruit because whites were the minority and were becoming victims," says Sammy Buentello, head of the Texas department of criminal justice's gang-management office. A former state-prison psychologist testified at trial that an assault by black inmates may have played a critical role in King's racist conversion. "My understanding of what turned this person around is that he was attacked," Dr. Walter Quijano testified. "That traumatized him and changed him dramatically...
...randier and more promiscuous than women? David Kendall didn't use it, but this could have been the biological brief for the President's defense during the impeachment proceedings, as propounded by M.I.T. cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker in the New Yorker. It's in the male's genetic self-interest to impregnate as many females as possible, while the female usually can produce only a dozen or so offspring in her lifetime no matter how much she messes around, so why should she try? Furthermore, the female consort of man-the-hunter didn't dare cheat on him lest...
...York, they live two hours apart; in Mather House, they live on either side of the same bathroom. Christina and Damaris, both literature concentrators, hope to attend law school and become judges. Together. After all, they almost share an identity. "In high school, my adviser, who was also a psychologist, said we were antisocial," Damaris explains. "We have all the same friends, but we do have friends. We just don't have friends by ourselves." When one is asked, "How are you doing?" she will often reply. "We're fine...
...York, they live two hours apart; in Mather House, they live on either side of the same bathroom. Christina and Damaris, both literature concentrators, hope to attend law school and become judges. Together. After all, they almost share an identity. "In high school, my adviser, who was also a psychologist, said we were antisocial," Damaris explains. "We have all the same friends, but we do have friends. We just don't have friends by ourselves." When one is asked, "How are you doing?" she will often reply, "We're fine...
...novel is an adventure story first; it wears its lofty paradoxes lightly. Bounding over the waves and through the woods, Covington bears an almost feudal loyalty to the brilliant master he calls "the gent." But while Darwin may have the upper hand socially and intellectually, Covington is the superior psychologist, gifted with a rustic common sense that allows him to hold his own with the great man and slyly enrich himself under Darwin's nose by selling rare animals to London collectors. Like the fantastic tortoises they encounter in the Galapagos, servant and master are perfectly adapted to their respective...