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Childhood physical and sexual abuse is more frequently at the root of major psychological problems than most psychiatrists have believed, according to a study by a Medical school professor presented in the current issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry...
...Senegal called for a full investigation of what he termed "a criminal act." Said he: "I am asking everyone to do all they can so that we can find out the reasons for the fire and the identities of the person or persons at the root of this...
...complex and many-layered as Graves', but they have their own peculiar intensity about the stuff of the natural world - in his case, wood. Surls, 40, a muscular farm dweller from Splendora, Texas, who is sometimes mistaken for Willie Nelson, works with whole branches and roots, artfully pegged and jointed together so that their knotty, straight-from-the-ground appearance is kept even as they turn into parodies of the human figure. It is like the folksy sensibility that pops two eyes on an odd-shaped root and turns it into a doll on the road side stand - only...
...ornery, meticulously crafted constructions of the late H.C. Westermann. His main weakness is a penchant for cockeyed whimsy, which seems to be an inexpert deduction from Miro. But this hardly matters beside the strength of Surls' best work. Notably Working in the Garden, 1981, the massive root system of an oak dug from the ground, seasoned, and then equipped with a demented spiral wooden "cloud" on top - a whirling dust-devil of some sort, studded with eyes and bristling with wooden facsimiles of double-bitted axes. It is an altogether marvelous apparition, one that manages to be funny, menacing...
Notoriety alone is not the root of the matter. Many complicated criminal cases routinely cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. The reasons for the phenomenal bills vary from case to case. Brink's-style security is uncommon. More usual cost escalators include lengthy investigations, prolonged jury selection and the growing tendency of lawyers to use streams of well-paid expert witnesses and counterexperts. In trials of indigents, the public must pay for both sides. Some courtroom staff would be employed in any event, but long trials can make it necessary to bring in additional lawyers, clerks and judges...