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Psychiatrists say the killers commonly suffer from a variant of Munchausen's syndrome, a bizarre mental condition that impels people to feign or induce illness in order to get care and nurturing from doctors and hospitals. In Munchausen's by proxy, people injure their children in their place. They may inject the youngsters with poisons or drugs, or mix blood in their urine. Parents have even been caught by surveillance cameras attempting to smother their offspring in their hospital beds...
...year tenure here the faculty decided that that's the grading system they wanted to use." Smith does propose his own explanation for the gap. "The theory, I presume, is that they wanted to make a letter grade distinction. That is, a B+ or B- is still a variant...
Columnist William Safire recently character-ized American foreign policy as a variant of the carrot-and-stick game: the promise of reward combined with the threat of punishment. The problem, he believes, is that of too much carrot and too little stick...
Arpino was wise to put this little fancy first. Because the costumes are glistening white and the women wear chignons, the classical echoes are clear when the scene shifts to the street. Moulton, on the other hand, establishes himself on the corner right away. Thunder/Purple Rain is a variant on the familiar sex-and-salvation theme. Elizabeth Parkinson plays a sort of fairy who transforms bystanders into lovers with a wand crowned, rather like a car's hood ornament, by a heart. Unfortunately, Moulton makes the song Purple Rain into a dismal solo that looks arduous to dance and provides...
...trial is testing the limits of the so-called battered-child-syndrome defense. (A variant, the battered-wife defense, is sometimes used by women who kill abusive husbands.) The Menendez brothers contend that they killed their parents not to avenge years of sexual and emotional torture -- that would be no legal justification -- but in self-defense. Even though Jose and Kitty were sitting placidly watching television? Yes. The law sometimes recognizes self- defense pleas from people who are not under attack but who reasonably fear imminent death unless they get their potential assailants first. The battered- child-syndrome defense holds...