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...exceedingly complex and slippery concept. No wonder St. Augustine couldn't explain it. But when the month, the year, the century and the millennium end next week, it's a fair bet that theoretical physicists, like the rest of us, will be partying to welcome in the year 2000--whether it really exists...
...category so broad as to be useless. "It's used for everyone from the person who cheats on his income taxes to Attila the Hun," says Fred Berlin, associate professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins medical school. "It's a label masquerading as an explanation." Others wonder whether the term is simply a catchall psychological description for people who are habitual criminals. Yet proponents argue that the disorder's core ingredients--a lifelong pattern of behavior, a willingness to break rules and hurt others, a lack of empathy or guilt--set certain criminals apart. "Empathy is what stops...
Just after the attack, Carruth visited the hospital where Adams was taken. Was he acting as any concerned boyfriend and father might? Or was he checking to see whether the job had been successful? Carruth could face the death penalty if convicted. Cherica Adams' baby boy, in the meantime, is in stable condition. He'll be raised by Adams' mother...
...Whether it is seen as a win or a weak compromise remains to be seen. The pact, TIME has learned, does not set any quotas for minority representation either in front of or behind the cameras. But it does lay out ambitious goals in some 30 areas where the networks can improve opportunities for minorities. For example, it requires each network to establish a recruitment program for minority managers and writers; to "make every effort to increase its promotional spending for minority shows"; and to appoint at least one new African American to its board of directors by Sept...
...with Norman Mailer in 1967, like this: "I should like to begin by asking Mr. Mailer, who has been sentenced to five days in jail for a march on the Pentagon and is appealing on the grounds that he was sentenced because he is famous, to disclose whether he believes that artists should be immune from the harassments of the law." Geraldo couldn't even parse that sentence...