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...Thomas Szasz has been the most controversial psychiatrist in the nation for years, so perhaps it's no shock that he has become Yoder's biggest defender. Born in Budapest, Szasz, 82, immigrated to the U.S. in 1938. He has been a psychiatry professor at the State University of New York for nearly 46 years. Szasz's most famous book, The Myth of Mental Illness, was published in 1961. As the Atlantic Monthly said, the book argued "that both our uses of the term 'mental illness' and the activities of the psychiatric profession are often scientifically untenable and morally indefensible...
...This may shock and amaze some folks, but it really is to spend time with my family. I am the only member of the top-four leadership that has kids at home. [Watts has five children.] I'm never going to be a 9-to-5 dad, but I've got an 11-year-old son. And we know the statistics about young black males...
...IRAN Ayatullah Resigns A senior religious figure resigned his post and issued a condemnation of the way the country is being run. Ayatullah Jalaluddin Taheri had held the post of the leader of Friday prayers in the city of Isfahan for 30 years. Taheri's resignation came as a shock to the clerical establishment that has controlled state power since the Islamic Revolution, in which he played a significant role. In his resignation statement, Taheri portrayed Iran's establishment as deeply corrupt, self-serving, hypocritical and repressive. Iran's highest-ranking security body ordered a gag on press coverage...
...against the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the International Criminal Court, the Kyoto Protocol and countless other global accords—have done little to help America’s reputation. Steel tariffs, the death penalty, the reluctance to support the U.N. and to fight AIDS in Africa: these shock most Europeans. When I explain that most liberal Democrats (myself included) support changing these policies and signing these treaties, the Spanish are much more friendly. They are relieved to know that not everyone in America is ignorant, or insane, or selfishly turning their backs on the world’s problems...
WorldCom's woes are hardly new. Indeed, part of the shock flows from investors' knowledge that though the company has been in decline for several years, it still managed to paper over its books. When the Internet bubble burst early in 2000, it took down many of WorldCom's biggest customers. The slide accelerated after regulators blocked the firm's $129 billion acquisition of Sprint in July 2000. In March the SEC launched a probe into how and why WorldCom had loaned Ebbers $366 million, most of which he ostensibly used to purchase WorldCom shares. The SEC also looked...