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Times have changed. Countless studies attest to the connection between psychological condition and both illness and recovery. What might be called the spirit/ body connection, although still regarded skeptically in most parts of the medical world, has conquered popular culture, the staging ground from which mind/body launched its siege of the academy. The prophets of this healing offensive are photogenic and media-friendly (enlightenment these days almost never implies asceticism), but here their common traits end. They speak in different tongues to reach different audiences. Physicians like Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Larry Dossey remain soberly scientific but eventually make...
...addition to their many other accomplishments, the Nazis continue to exert a woeful hold on the Western imagination, as anyone who has attended many postwar productions of opera or Shakespeare can attest. The swastika has become a trite symbol of evil; foot soldiers in dramas tend to goose-step. Things are going a little too far, though, when synchronized swimming--also known as water ballet--fixes on death camps as a motif for aquatic drama. Such was the case with the French Olympic team, which, in preparing its effort for Atlanta this summer, crafted a routine featuring swimmers...
...evidence continues to accumulate that Theodore J. Kaczynski '62 was pre-destined to do bad deeds, and it seems that everyone who had contact with him during his time here can attest to that. Ted, as he must have been known by these intimates, is portrayed as a math prodigy conflicted by his poor social acumen--a bomber-in-the-making, and a smelly one at that...
...requires an on-the-spot judgment. In this case, it was determined by our counter person that waiving the rental fee was not appropriate. The caricature in Lat's article more clearly reflects his approach as a customer than our commitment to service, as many of our customers will attest...
...environment of financial security, where the child is safe from physical or emotional abuse? Is it "right" to bring a child into this world and then proceed to beat her? Of course, this is the exception, but in every state there are over-burdened social workers who can attest to the abuse and neglect that plague many children...