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Appointed as a lecturer in clinical psychology in 1959 after earning his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley, Leary's experiments with the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin were the subject of a maelstrom of controversy at Harvard...
...ORLEANS: President Clinton continues his stampede to campaign turf staked out by Bob Dole. Thursday's subject: Curfews for minors. A day after Dole delivered a speech touching on a similar theme in California, Clinton used an appearance before the New Orleans Church of God in Christ to embrace the idea of curfews as a way to protect children and prevent them from getting involved in criminal activity. In touting the "dusk to dawn" curfew in New Orleans, Clinton said curfews are needed to "bring more order and structure and discipline" to young people's lives. The New Orleans curfew...
...there really were a wall between church and state in America, marriage would be Checkpoint Charlie, the one the spies and diplomats keep pouring through. So intense is their common interest in the subject that the two sides have to keep an eye on each other because each immediately affects the air the other breathes. If, just to take this year's crisis, either side should start to allow same-sex marriages, the air over both of them would instantly seem fresher to some citizens and quite poisonous to others. Perhaps there should be talks...
...largely voluntary, a series of perverse choices by a free will. But as it becomes likelier that homosexuality is a physical predisposition, presumably God-given, the next kind of question has to be, What might God have had in mind, and is it significant that Christ never mentioned the subject? And the question after that: What injustices may have been done to homosexuals under the old understanding, and what can be done to avoid more of them...
...nifty feature allowing netizens to search an archive of the President's Saturday radio addresses. It was simple: type in a keyword--say "Medicare"--and the index would produce a list of all his speeches addressing that issue, even playing an audio segment of the speech cued to the subject. The easy-to-use index was a valuable resource. Maybe too valuable. Concerned that it might be used by political enemies for "opposition research," jittery Administration officials yanked the index and the audio in mid-April. Impassioned fans of the home page noticed the absence and E-mailed the White...