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...lie!! I can't take it anymore! The 1 a.m. party curfew, the no-fly zone, the Teletubbies, ahhhh...
Long before restorative justice gathered steam, Aba Gayle, 65, learned to forgive and to let go. Gayle says she knows all about "the big lie"--the promise that prosecutors make to relatives of murder victims that "everything will be O.K." once a murderer is caught, tried, convicted, sentenced to death and executed. In 1980 her daughter Catherine, 19, and a male friend were stabbed to death on a pear farm near Sacramento, Calif. Virtually disabled by what she called a kind of temporary insanity, Gayle attended the sentencing of Douglas Mickey as he received the death penalty for the killings...
...preferences and discusses the evolutionary origins and behavioral consequences of what he finds. A section titled "The Hidden Side of Women's Short-Term Sexuality," which elaborates on such topics as what women stand to gain from "casual sex as one strategy within a flexible sexual repertoire," gives the lie to Ehrenreich's claim that evolutionary psychologists have been "fooled" into believing myths of female chastity. Ehrenreich might be more comfortable in a debate between polarized caricatures of actual positions, but surely this is the kind of simplistic thinking that she wants to take issue with. OLIVER CURRY, SERIES EDITOR...
...used to be very good at doing nothing. I'd go for a walk nowhere in particular, lie on the beach, look at the clouds. If I were feeling ambitious, I might light a cigar...
...time you turn the ignition key, without fail, no matter how cold a morning it is. His new album is straight Strait, traditional my-heart's-been-broke country, without frills or filler. The lyrics revel in comfortably familiar country contradiction: "I ain't missin' you/ That's a lie, and that's the truth," he sings on one track. This is a short CD--in typically spare Strait fashion, there are just 10 songs--but that's all you need to get you by. If you're looking to take a country jaunt, riding shotgun with Strait...