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...slightly more elevated social station in Jamaica. She had a high school education, which my father lacked. ("Him who never finished high school," she would mutter when Pop pulled rank on family matters.) Before emigrating, Mom had worked as a stenographer in a lawyer's office. She was a staunch union supporter, a member of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. My father, the shipping-room foreman, considered himself part of management. Initially, they were both New Deal Democrats. We had that famous wartime photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with the Capitol and the flag in the background, hanging...
...paradoxical jargon of psychiatry, a "successful" suicide. But it took years for her to accept the fact that she had to stay on medication. What really saved her life, she says, was psychotherapy. In an age that believes drugs alone can defeat disease, Jamison remains a staunch supporter of what Freud called "the talking cure." "Lithium moderates the illness," she observes, "but therapy teaches you to live with...
...study of online porn first to Time. "Like most people on the Net," Elmer-DeWitt says, "I knew this stuff was out there. But I hadn't realized how much of it there was--I had never even heard of most of those '-philias' [sexual preferences]. I am a staunch believer in free speech, but some of what people are looking at is very disturbing." The scientists who conducted the study were convinced that Elmer-DeWitt would be able to put these difficult issues in context. As this week's cover story makes clear, they were right...
Before the Oklahoma blast, the militias could count on two freshmen Republicans in Congress for staunch support. Representative Helen Chenoweth of Idaho has publicly noted that "black helicopters" operated by the Federal Government -- a common demonic image in militia lore -- have harassed Idaho citizens. Representative Steve Stockman of Texas sent a concerned letter to Attorney General Janet Reno in March when he heard rumors that the Federal Government was about to raid local militias. "A paramilitary-style attack against Americans who pose no risk to others ... would run the risk of an irreparable breach between the Federal Government...
...American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a staunch protector of our rights as citizens, has taken an uncharacteristically unprotective stance on the right to keep and bear arms. They reason that the Second Amendment was created to give states the right to maintain a militia to protect them from federal tyranny. It does not guarantee an individual right to bear arms...