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...pride of preppies, and a torrent of ordinary white people either glued to the walls in sullen observation or flailing rhythmically in intoxicated syncopation. What they had left for our brooms at four a.m., besides the beer cans and cigarettes, we did not stoop to inquire: some hair, a shred or two of clothing, bits of fingernail, and even blood perhaps...
...nature of Bailey's argument was previewed in London by British Psychiatrist William Sargant, who spent five long sessions with Patty last November, at the Hearst family's request. Writing in the London Times, Sargant claimed that "there is not a shred of truth in any allegation that she cooperated in her kidnaping." He said studies of prisoners of war show that a normal person cannot endure more than 30 days of confinement, harassment and threats from terrorist captors without breaking down. After Patty had been blindfolded for 60 days and tortured, he said, "she had a short...
...cited for having vouched in court for Nixon's assertion that one tape could not be supplied because it contained information affecting the nation al security. Wright had not heard the tape himself, and when the White House finally yielded it, the tape was found to contain no shred of such conversations...
...observations are aimed at determining whether boys whose cells contain the extra shred of information--either an extra X or extra Y chromosome--develop abnormalities. It is the prospect that an extra Y component can be linked with criminal behavior--a notion ballyhooed in the mid-60s--that led the Justice Department and the Center for the Study of Crime and Delinquency of the National Institute of Mental Health to grant Walzer's investigation more than $465,000 over eight years...
...surmise." At his worst, Sheed writes things like "I am told by those who know that being beaten up by a gifted father has a peculiar horror to it; all that intelligence coming at you twisted and roaring." What is bad about this is that Sheed has not a shred of evidence that Ali's gifted father beat him up, as he must admit in the next sentence: "Whether Ali's childhood was like this, or anything like this, it would be impertinent to guess-and he isn't saying." This is the sort of guff that...