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...shoulders they just flop and hang. He also has a taste for $1.25 Jamaican Dunhill cigars, of which he burns up five to seven a day. Whenever he does not have an official dinner, he likes to slip out to a small and modest Italian restaurant, where he is seldom recognized. When it is on the menu, he orders steak tartare, which he tosses and stirs with great panache...
Civility may be in retreat on other fronts, but most newspapers still routinely decline to print the names of alleged rape victims. That courtesy is seldom required by law and rarely afforded the victims of other crimes. Herman J. Obermayer, 53, editor and publisher of the Northern Virginia Sun, an evening daily that goes to 20,000 households just south of the nation's capital, thinks it is time the custom ended...
...part of the mysterious emotional process by which the nation is healing itself from the bruises and fatigue accumulated during recent years. Those years produced, in numbing succession, the civil rights upheavals, riots, assassinations, the Viet Nam War, Watergate, oceans of porn and a life-style whose followers were seldom tempted to distinguish self-indulgence from self-realization...
...establish harmful effects. Few establish close matches between the control and test groups, and when abnormalities are found in the test group, it is not uncommon to find that the group's members, unlike those in the control group, had previously used other more powerful drugs. These experiments are seldom replicated. Moreover, several recent studies have found no deleterious effects in humans who have used potent forms of the drug (such as Jamaican ganja) for long periods of time. It has also been charged that the government drug bureaucracy has tried to repress reports that have found marijuana...
Driven by a hunger for information about the once seldom-discussed days of the Third Reich, West Germans keep devouring books about their Nazi past. Latest object of their fascination is Joseph Goebbels, the fiery orator and master of the Big Lie who served for twelve years as the Nazi Minister of Propaganda. Almost as soon as excerpts from his 1945 diary were published late last year, they shot onto the West German bestseller lists.* Because Goebbels apparently intended to use this diary primarily as source material for a book, he never took the time to edit or rewrite...