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Says University of Southern California Psychiatrist Frederick Hacker: "The media claim to be holding a mirror up to society. But the recent rash of hostage crimes indicates that the media have actually been promoting criminal behavior." Crime reporting has become more pervasive, and viewers appear to like that. As Chicago Psychiatrist Marvin Ziporyn observes sadly: "All you need to do today to see violent crime is to turn on a switch." But he absolves the press-"It merely reflects what is happening on the streets"-and blames instead the growing assertiveness of the individual. "We are moving from a time...
...confidence-and a power over party matters that made her the terror of his "kitchen-cabinet" Labor cronies. It was hardly a secret that among those on her list of less-favored was Haines, 49, practitioner of an abrasive, workingman style of Laborism. But until the pro-Labor Daily Mirror last week began excerpting Haines' new book The Politics of Power, few realized the puritanical depth with which he despised Williams' temperamental exercise of power and love of privilege...
...million. In perhaps the largest newspaper sale ever, S.I. Newhouse last year paid more than $300 million for Booth Newspapers' eight dailies and the Sunday supplement Parade. In all, 72 dailies changed hands last year, up from 49 in 1975. Says Otis Chandler, vice chairman of the Times Mirror Co. and an unsuccessful bidder for both Booth and the Star Co.: "Everyone is rushing...
Each of the book's 16 stories (most of which originally appeared in the New Yorker) can fly on its own. Taken together, they form both a whimsical saga of invisible dynasties and an extended commentary on Homo sapiens. Warner's elves are in many ways mirror images of men. They cannot weep and do not hate. They reproduce with difficulty but live for centuries: "Fairies are constructed for longevity, not fertility." They are governed exclusively by women-the more capricious the better...
...need science to tell you we share the same DNA as the buffalo and virus. Put aside the question of "genes." Let us stand before the mirror and put aside our denim jeans and see our animal heritage. A father will quickly defend his home against an intruder without using a textbook (except as a weapon). The mother needs no more data than a whimper or tear to rush to comfort her child. We act instinctually despite sociobiology's attempts to prove...