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...been transformed into an interesting yet obsolete medical case on display at the Loeb Ex this weekend. Director Sarah T. Stewart invites us to attend her "Tranquil Grove Series of Visiting Lecturers on depression." This particular session takes us into the 19th century to witness how Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell's "rest" treatment drives an independent-minded woman insane. But you better get your tickets now, seminars such as these fill up quickly...
...Democrats prepare to move into the power centers, Washington-area businesses are hoping for a trickle-down effect. "I just want to get my hands on Hillary's roots," gushes Robin Weir, Nancy Reagan's former hairdresser. To boost his chances, he sent his salon manager to California this week to have her hair done by Hillary Clinton's favorite stylist, Cristophe. Says Weir: "We want to get across to him that we know this town...
...Loeb Associate Professor of the SocialSciences Margaret Weir plans to leave Cambridgenext year to be a senior fellow in residence atthe institute...
...Jenco insists Sutherland's distress was real. On rare occasions, tensions erupted in hostility, such as the well-known episode in September 1985, when captors invited a group of hostages to select among themselves who should go free. Anderson and Jacobsen nearly came to blows over the sweepstakes, which Weir won -- by the captors' choice...
...contrast, argues, "Anger is a very good emotion. Even Jesus got angry." While there is little evidence of the Stockholm syndrome, wherein captives begin to identify with their tormentors, several of the former detainees seem to have some empathy for the plight of the underpaid men who held them. Weir recalls that one of his guards lamented that he was as much a prisoner as Weir. "We've got to spend our time here looking after you, and we're not free," he told Weir...