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...transcendence characterizesWomen Who Love Sex.Ogden patterns her book on personal discussions with various women who represent the opinions and comments from hundreds of women that she has recorded in her research. These conversations are a mixture of group therapy, lessons in ecology and New Age karma. Rosa likes to rub Tibetan monk singing bowls while talking about the "old patriarchal sexual equation"; Maya, 70 years old and going strong, shouts out '"Skin hunger!" to get her point across...

Author: By Susan S. Lee, | Title: Entertaining Psychological Babble Implicates Women in Intercourse | 5/20/1994 | See Source »

...left with the question of how Flynn the wembler cam to learn the art to making sagacious choices. Maybe hanging around the Holy see without much to do has allowed a little of that infallibility ex cathedra to rub off on our old friend...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 4/30/1994 | See Source »

Innocence is, of course, the rub. We will probably never know exactly what happened in Margaret Bean-Bayog's office, and it is probably impossible to determine whether her therapy (or malpractice) actually caused his suicide. But we can ask at least two questions. If she is innocent, of what is she innocent, exactly? If she is guilty, of what is she guilty, exactly? Even if this case remains essentially unresolved, we must hope that it will initiate serious conversation about the practices of psychiatry and psychotherapy...

Author: By Isaac J. Hall, | Title: PSYCHO Shrink Speaks | 4/21/1994 | See Source »

...inmates over state lines. To date, Oklahoma and Rhode Island have contracted to house temporarily a total of 226 inmates. Even so, unless Hunt can persuade legislators to raise the statutory cap by March 15, he will be forced to release 3,400 inmates. And therein lies the rub. The mandatory sentences that keep drug offenders in push violent criminals out. In Florida drug sentences of, on average, four years have cut time dramatically for other inmates. The average prisoner serves just 41% of his time; serious thugs do half. Although the standard sentence for robbery is 8.6 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: America's Overcrowded Prisons | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...Individuals, and businesses too small to effectively extort these payments subsidize the border-hoppers with higher taxes. Gov. Jim Edgar of Illinois, who is stuck dealing with more than 300 million dollars in incentives doled out to a handful of companies by his predecessor, has come to realize this rub: "Once you get something, you might have given up so much it wasn't worth getting [the project], and everyone else that pays taxes is frustrated," Edgar told the National Journal last April...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: The Siren Call of Tax Abatements | 12/11/1993 | See Source »

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