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Fellow Crimson editor Johnathan H. Alter '79, now a Senior Editor and Columnist for Newsweek, said it was no surprise that Whitaker replaced Parker...
...weaves her anecdotes together with science--for example, a Harvard study finding that severe trauma may alter both the chemistry and structure of the brain and other body systems meant to handle stress. And she chronicles the problems that researchers have, even today, in getting institutions to take the problem seriously. Two scientists at the National Institute of Mental Health, for example, were stymied when they attempted to undertake a groundbreaking study of the connection between childhood sexual abuse and adult disorders such as self-injury. "We don't do that kind of research," the researchers say they were told...
...must alter the accepted, morally casual definition of the word "career" from "what one does throughout one's working life, which may or may not be socially responsible." to "what one does throughout one's working life, which is necessarily socially responsible." The career-seeker should seek to improve the world. This goal is not an unintended, incidental by-product, not even a secondary intention. Rather, one's primary intention is to improve the world both actively and directly--as unerringly as the word "seek" implies. All other intentions and by-products, though at times important, remain subordinate...
...Western Arab states will likely be even more strongly opposed to military action than they were last February, while Saddam will have drawn courage from NATO's obvious reluctance to take military action in Kosovo. The policy makers meeting in Washington will be aware that if air strikes could alter the political equation at all, it would probably be in Saddam's favor. And tough sanctions have already been in place for almost eight years. That doesn't leave President Clinton a whole lot of face cards...
...open class are more flexible. Open nouns can adapt quite fluidly as culture changes, so that "Negro" shifts to "colored," then "black" and "African-American." Pronouns, however, belong to the closed class of words; they are the building blocks of language and hence are more difficult to alter...