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...trial of Andrea Yates for the murder of her children, it is the job of prosecutors to prove that no matter how deep her psychosis, she knew right from wrong. As the testimony is making clear, in the throes of her illness she lived for months with confused thoughts not only about right and wrong but also about good and evil--because she believed she was the devil...
Through bouts of post-partum psychosis, the images and catchwords of the Bible became ways for Andrea to express her mental darkness. She received no guidance from established religious institutions; she and her husband Rusty chose to home-church their family three times a week. She earmarked pages in her Bible about a mother's obligation to raise her children or face the consequences, and about the death penalty being the only way to get rid of demons inside. She came to believe that she had failed so badly to measure up to her own extreme ideals of motherhood...
...show that her rationalization process was insane. The jail psychiatrist testified that upon her arrest, she said, "I was so stupid. Could I have killed just one to fulfill the prophecy? Could I have offered Mary [her youngest]?" The jury could begin deliberating the case--and the conundrum of Andrea Yates' mind--this week or next...
Last year, Andrea L. Tsai ’03, a former captain of the women’s team, sent an e-mail message to David Fish, the men’s varsity tennis coach, asking for a different time...
...Laura D'Andrea Tyson didn't accept her new job because of the weather. After all, who'd swap sunny California for bleak Britain? Instead, Tyson - who was U.S. President Bill Clinton's chief economic adviser from 1993 to 1996 - carefully weighed the pluses and minuses of a move from the dean's office at the University of California's Haas School of Business to the London Business School. "Weather isn't everything," says Tyson, who concluded that London is the place to be - a center for culture, commerce, the arts, business and world trade. Her task: to lead...