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...DIED. Charles Haughey, 80, charismatic and durable Irish politician who served three terms as Ireland's Taoiseach, or Prime Minister, between 1979 and 1992; in Dublin. The son of an Irish Republican Army officer, Haughey's lengthy political career was marred by corruption allegations, including his trial in 1970 on charges of gunrunning for the I.R.A. (he was acquitted). As Taoiseach, his economic policies helped kindle Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" boom, but his last years in office were dogged by allegations of insider trading, conflicts of interest and tax evasion; he resigned in 1992 amid a phone-tapping scandal...
...others were seated. The President picked it up - felt its weight. "Thing's a nightmare," he said quietly, almost to himself, and put it down. A CIA briefer went through a dissertation on the device, the technical problems it solved, its probable uses and the long road of trial and error leading to this moment. Everyone just sat in the Oval Office, looking at it - thinking about the era and its challenges, and saying nothing...
...point of contention was that some 30 subjects in McGorry's trial received as part of their treatment regular doses of risperidone, one of a class of drugs known as antipsychotics or neuroleptics, which have been linked to a host of harmful side effects, including movement disorders. Critics were indignant that a potentially dangerous drug was being used on a hunch, and suspected the influence of big pharma and its drive to expand its markets. "This," American mental health lobbyist David Oaks told Time in 2001, "is one of the most bizarre and counterproductive human experiments on young people...
...With its small number of participants, the trial was inconclusive, but the results were enough to encourage McGorry. With colleagues at a public mental health clinic linked to the University of Melbourne, he began recruiting in late 2000 for a second, larger trial—whose results are yet to be analyzed—while American researchers embarked on similar experiments of their own. Though the voices of outrage were unrelenting, McGorry had a powerful professional ally in friend Thomas McGlashan, director of Yale University's Psychiatric Institute. But that pillar of support has now gone. Discouraged by the results of his own trial...
...what's going to help them. The critics have been right to raise issues, but you can't neglect people when they clearly have a disorder, just because we can't technically fit them into our arbitrary system of classification." There were flaws in the design of McGlashan's trial, he says, that account for the negative result...