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...recent memoir “Wishful Drinking” about her experience and struggles with drug use and bipolar disorder. One of the most memorable parts of the book happens around page 10, when Fisher first learns that bipolar disorder is the reason why most of her adult life has been so, as she puts it, “f*cked up.” The doctor, upon breaking the news, easily rattles off a list of other famous and brilliant people who also suffered from a combination of alcohol and mental disorders, including Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Cole Porter...
...many of the schools, the first thing we noticed was the constant din of children yelling, screaming, and generally being unruly. Adult supervision was scarce, and where there was an adult present, the adult was scurrying from one end of the classroom to the other, quieting the children here and breaking up fights there...
...most heartbreaking element of this situation is that many of the kids who attend these schools are fiercely intelligent, but the school system is slowly eating them alive, and every adult at the schools we visited, including myself, knew it. I use the expression “eating them alive” because that is the best way I know how to describe the situation. The crushing feeling is analogous to how it must feel for a creature to be eaten alive by a python. What makes the prospect so sickening is that the prey is still alive and conscious...
William M. Polk, Cambridge Center for Adult Education president and Gammons’ close friend, opened the event by asking the 2004 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee about the 2010 prospects...
Having been raised in a Reform Jewish household, I grew up with a sense of personal connection to the state of Israel. As a young adult, I was troubled by various policies and practices of the Israeli government that came to my attention, such as those to which Mr. Rashid referred, yet constantly aware of the innocent Israeli lives lost through terrorist actions. I realized that this issue, like most, cannot be viewed as black and white...