Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alan Kazdin, chairman of Yale's psychology department. "Punishment never teaches what to do, [and only] sometimes what not to do." Some very young kids don't even understand they're being punished. "Even in jail, kids want their candy bars, their pillows and pajamas," says lawyer Mones. "They wonder where their cheeseburgers are." It's also crucial to realize these kids will get out someday. "The important thing to do is not to trash these kids," says Carl Bell, "with disregard for their need for attachment, school, mental health evaluation and support...
...Slobodan Milosevic's secret service. Though the Serbian Interior Ministry denies a connection, at least four other wanted men have been killed, including RADOVAN STOJICIC BADZA, the militia commander who became the Serbian Deputy Minister of the Interior and was gunned down last year in a pizzeria. Little wonder that the Hague's most wanted, Bosnian Serb leader RADOVAN KARADZIC and General RATKO MLADIC, remain in hiding...
...Wonder how your fund manager invests his money? Under a proposed Securities and Exchange Commission regulation, it may get easier to find out in prospectuses what he's allowed to do. Even that may not be enough to satisfy critics (like the former Putnam fund counsel who complained to the SEC last week) who say lax codes let managers profit at your expense via personal trades. Vanguard and Fidelity restrict managers' trading of stocks just before or after their fund makes a trade; Janus prohibits all trading in individual stocks...
...been raising Callie hasn't been the most tranquil. Carlton Conley, Johnson's sometime boyfriend and possibly Rebecca's biological father, was convicted of assault and battery in April. Johnson said Conley had shoved her, rammed her car with his truck and in January threatened to shoot her. (Small wonder, then, that last year Johnson obtained a state permit to carry a concealed firearm...
...Erin Billings '99, as Vodya's mother, laces her character with such hostile helplessness that one wants to both hug her and run far away from her. Her poisonous glares at Rodent and her razor-sharp words chill the entire audience to the bone; yet one cannot help but wonder if, should one be in her situation, one could act any differently...