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...Steven Stack, professor of psychiatry and criminal justice at Wayne State University, offers another explanation: the copycat effect. The copycat theory was first conceived by a criminologist in 1912, after the London newspapers' wall-to-wall coverage of the brutal crimes of Jack the Ripper in the late 1800s led to a wave of copycat rapes and murders throughout England. Since then, there has been much research into copycat events - mostly copycat suicides, which appear to be most common - but, taken together, the findings are inconclusive...
...course, there were cult movies, and Ballard became best known for those: Steven Spielberg's WW II epic Empire of the Sun and David Cronenberg's adaptation of Crash, the 1996 shock flick that caused a stunned moral panic in Britain 23 years after Ballard's novel was published...
...said third-year Law School student Todd M. Blodgett, who called Kagan one of the best professors he had encountered in his time at Harvard. And while a few students admitted they had hoped for a “celebrity” after Secretary of Energy Steven Chu was announced as the Commencement keynote speaker, others said they were happy to have Kagan give them a final send-off. “She’s a good speaker,” said third-year Law School student Stephanie M. Early. “It’s a nice...
...pipe and sustained some minor injuries. She evaded the alleged suspect by running away, and has since been treated at a local hospital, according to the advisory. The alleged victim was unable to provide a description of her attacker. The incident is under investigation, according to the HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano. All students, faculty, and staff of Harvard’s Cambridge campus and some at the Longwood campus received notification of the incident yesterday afternoon in the form of a community advisory e-mail issued by the HUPD, according to Catalano. The e-mail is the first...
...into the origins of the interrogation policies that was released on Tuesday night - are sure to ratchet up pressure on his Administration to clear the air. So will a report expected soon from the Justice Department's ethics office, which is looking into the actions of the memos' authors, Steven Bradbury, Jay Bybee and John Yoo. Federal officials say it will find their legal logic unpersuasive, though what measures it may recommend, be it disbarment or criminal charges, are uncertain...