Mannes

Jonathan Mannes, the ACLU lawyer who drafted the FOIA request which is soon going to ripen into a law suit over the US revealing its legal rationale for targeted killing, laid it out in the FOIA itself and in short form at the conference.

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Mannes still let the rapist show off his factory along the Spanish-Portuguese border to her.

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The sense that Ms. Mannes has difficulty distinguishing good evidence from bad is confirmed when, later in the book, she moves from music in the cerebral hemispheres to that of the cosmic spheres.

Striking a False Note Raymond Tallis 2011

Ms. Mannes is also excited by "the next wave" of treatments.

Striking a False Note Raymond Tallis 2011

According to Ms. Mannes, music is everywhere: in the vibrating "strings" of the latest version of subatomic physics and in the great cosmos itself.

Striking a False Note Raymond Tallis 2011

Yet her investigation, based on a PBS documentary that Ms. Mannes produced, gives us little reason to expect that neuroscience will deliver on this promissory note.

Striking a False Note Raymond Tallis 2011

Music is encoded in our brains and bodies, Elena Mannes writes.

Striking a False Note Raymond Tallis 2011

Ms. Mannes, an Emmy-winning granddaughter of the founders of New York's Mannes School of Music, is inspired by the possibility that neuroscience may help us harness the potential of music to treat the sick and even to build more harmonious communities.

Striking a False Note Raymond Tallis 2011

The book's drift towards half-baked mysticism becomes worrying when Ms. Mannes discusses the therapeutic potential of music—how it may "make people smarter, happier and even healthier."

Striking a False Note Raymond Tallis 2011

Ms. Mannes introduces us to one Vera Brandes, who has designated herself as "the first musical pharmacologist" and who sells music specially composed to address what she judges to be the patient's needs.

Striking a False Note Raymond Tallis 2011