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Whatever the reason for bullying, the consequences are clear. Nishina found that victims feel sick more often than their classmates do, are absent more often and tend to have lower grades. They are also more depressed and withdrawn--a natural reaction, says Nishina, but one that "can subsequently lead to more victimization." The studies also indicate that schools take too narrow a view of what constitutes bullying. Physical aggression is forbidden, as are such forms of verbal bullying as sexual harassment and racial slurs. But the rules are generally silent about less incendiary name calling. "You're probably not going...
AILING. PETER JENNINGS, 66, well-traveled TV journalist and sole anchor since 1983 of ABC's World News Tonight; with lung cancer; in New York City. His voice hoarse during his characteristic matter-of-fact delivery, Jennings, who was conspicuously absent during the network's on-site coverage of the tsunami in South Asia and the death of Pope John Paul II, revealed his illness to viewers in a taped message at the end of a broadcast last week. He will continue to anchor the news while undergoing chemotherapy, starting this week...
Though it represents almost 10 percent of the student body, Harvards omnibus international student organization seems to have all but vanished from the scene. Suffering from organizational paralysis, Woodbridge was patently absent from the Southeast Asian tsunami relief effortthe most significant international event in recent months. While other organizations sang and danced their way to dollars, Woodbridgean international organization with a natural role to play in alleviating the damages of an international disasterdid absolutely nothing...
...while the fortune tellers were foreseeing Harvard’s impending doom, the team was quietly serving notice, even amid the heartbreak of its 4-3 loss to Minnesota—a unit with its own absent stars complicating the road to a three-peat—that its prospects for next season are not all that...
...number one defender, went down with a rib cage injury on a penalty kill late in the first period and did not return. By the time she was hurt, Harvard already held a secure 2-0 lead and the urgency to rush her back to the ice was absent...