Word: aides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pressures are somewhat different for students interested in spending a summer working with the Legal Aid Society or the American Civil Liberties Union...
...model, however, the council would address substantive issues by bringing them home to the students in the form of education and facilitated discourse. This council would organize forums on race relations, increase faculty-student dialogue on the Core and sponsors informative seminars on the effects of the new financial aid policy or pending education-related legislation. It establishes strong ties with groups close to the students themselves, such as house committees, special-interest organizations and the campus media...
Tied up in the discussion of the need forcontinued affirmative action was the RiggsAmendment, the proposed law that would prohibitaffirmative action at any school where even onestudent receives federal aid, such as a loan...
Experts recommend that managers call in their companies' employee-assistance programs to help in such cases, but aid for the afflicted is scarce. In addition to traditional offline therapy, Young offers a virtual clinic with chat rooms and e-mail counseling on her website--an approach that University of Cincinnati psychiatrist Dr. Toby Goldsmith likens to "taking an alcoholic to an A.A. meeting in a bar." Goldsmith reports that some of the participants in her group's study are having success curbing their computer compulsion after taking mood stabilizers, sometimes combined with antidepressants...
...offers up a spare, resonant reading of her gently anthemic song Woodstock. "We are stardust...And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden..." she sings. The lyrics seem to belong to another age, an era of idealism and Abbie Hoffman and moon landings and electric Kool-Aid acid tests and B-52s bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. But even as she sings, Mitchell is planted in the present. There's a rootedness about her; she's too grounded to be carried off by gusts of nostalgia. She keeps her own time...