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...Richard Dooling's brilliant new novel, Brain Storm, Judge Whittaker Stang, a Howard Cosell in robes, scolds an attorney who wants to try the killer of a "disabled person of color" for a hate crime rather than simple murder. The ambitious lawyer thinks that will make him look cuddly and electable in a run for the Senate. Throbbing with scorn, Stang tears into him: "Are we going to impanel a jury to inquire after just what kind of hate this degenerate had running around inside his head? And after we identify all the warped, deviant varietals of hatred...
...says Rapoport, "now we're seeing--rightly--boys, boys, boys." In fact, says Howard Cohen, a marketing manager at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati, Ohio, "there have been so many studies done on girls. I think this is, I won't say a backlash, but it's coming back around." One popular title is Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood by William Pollack (Random House). It is boys who are in serious trouble, says Pollack, including many who appear at first glance to be doing just fine. Writes Pollack: "New research shows that boys are faring...
...early last Tuesday morning, Howard Georgi '67-'68, master of Leverett House, sent an e-mail message to Leverett residents urging them to make theirs a House of tolerance...
...Gardner's theory in schools, it is easy for people to let their emotions run away with them. The notion that a child may have important abilities that are not measured by IQ tests is immensely appealing; it also happens to be true. As Siegler said, "Howard sells hope." Yet this hope ought to be tempered by realism, and a realistic view of MI theory may not justify the enthusiasm it has engendered thus...
CALLING GRACE METALIOUS Howard Baker asked the question at the heart of Watergate--"What did the President know, and when did he know it?"--and the question at the heart of Monicagate was posed by South Carolina Congressman Lindsey Graham, who last week wondered, "Is this Watergate or Peyton Place?" Let's look at some characteristics of Monicagate and see whether they are present in these other dramas...