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...defenders, he made the case that the DSM should regard mental illness as "continuous with normal": less like leukemia and more like hypertension. You don't get diagnosed with hypertension until you meet a cutoff point for high blood pressure that takes into account other extenuating factors: your age, for instance, or the conditions under which the blood-pressure reading is taken. Depression should be the same: if you are sad because you just got divorced, the DSM shouldn't necessarily consider you to have an illness...
...school year: $33,696 Number of members in the cast of Acropolis Now, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 161st Show: 12 Number of performances put on this year: 38 Year of the staging of the HPT’s first production, Bombastes Furioso: 1844 Age of Paul Dudley, class of 1690, the youngest person ever to be admitted to Harvard: 10 Estimated IQ of Willian James Sidis, class of 1909, a child prodigy who entered Harvard at age 11: 300 Number of books stolen fron Widener library found in the home of a University graduate: 2,054 Number...
...minute outtake of the Velvet Underground’s “Sister Ray” floating just below the surface on “Fuckbook.” At the same time, Condo Fucks invoke a sonic mantle more recently taken up by lo-fi revivalists like No Age, Abe Vigoda and Times New Viking—the latter even features a track called “Times New Viking Vs. Yo La Tengo” on their latest album. This last point is more coincidence than self-conscious imitation, though; “Fuckbook?...
...performances haven’t been excellently attended,” said David R. Rhein ’09. “Publicity has never been the group’s strong suit. Our thing is jokes.” This year, however, students might find an age-old incentive to attend HCSUCS’s first round competition. Their adversary? Yale. Looks like after a crushing shut out at The Game, the Bulldogs may have a chance to redeem themselves on the stage...
...hard-fought success story out of the Salaam Bombay! cast was Raju Barnad, who at age 8 played Keera. Recalls the movie's cinematographer, Sandi Sissel: "He was tiny, and we all thought he was about five years old. He slept outside my guest-room door each night, and ultimately I invited him inside to bathe and sleep on a cot." Growing attached to the child, Sissel enrolled him in a Missionaries of Charity school for street children. She also sent money to the boy's mother...