Word: psycopath
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...Memphis has its growth is yet to be seen. Memphis, says HBO boxing analyst Larry Merchant, went after the fight "the way it would go after a new automobile plant." At the weigh-in Thursday afternoon, Merchant stood back, shaking his head and watching Tyson, whom he calls a "psycopath," play to the whooping crowd. "Boxing will lose if Tyson wins," pronounced Merchant, whose HBO network is collaborating with Showtime in producing the pay-per-view version of the fight. "He's convincing people that you don't have the obey the rules, that boxing has no rules...
...course, not every midwesterner is a psycopath who plots the kidnapping of family members. This could never be more obvious than in Brainard, where the victims are discovered. Everyone knows everyone, and double homicides are rare. Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) is the visibly pregnant, and apparantly naive, chief of police in Brainard. Her husband is a wildlife painter who brings her lunch every day and frets over a contract to design the three cent stamp...
...book is very highly respected in the field; as Professor Glueck noted, McCord has done invaluable work in defining the concept of the psychopath, a concept which was very unclear before. McCord's work with the psycopath, a person with very little conscience, is closely linked to his other major interest, that of the development of conscience. He plans to do his "magnum opus" on the latter subject within the next ten years...
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