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There are also traditions of sustained activities involving a significant portion of House residents, like an Evening with Champions, Eliot House's annual figure skating benefit for the Jimmy Fund. If, as many claim, student organizations have replaced Houses as the primary student communities, House-based student organizations might be the best of both worlds...
...this issue, the Clinton Administration, which at home is irreproachably antiracist and which abroad intervened forcefully in Haiti and Somalia, deserves the benefit of the doubt...
Lewis and Clark, Einstein, Galileo, Edison and test pilots are risk takers, as are BASE jumpers and other devotees of extreme sports. But there is a crucial difference. Society gets no benefit from the latter group, who are solely concerned with selfish gratification. GILBERT STORK Englewood...
...instructor at Harvard, counsels families as they navigate their way through the illusions and into the reality of marriage. She says the couples she sees are trying to nurture their relationships along with raising perfect kids and maintaining careers, but in this compartmentalized era, they are without the benefit of support systems of extended families and communities. Couples also expect to be happy. But "the facts of life are very grinding, so the reality of marriage is grinding," says Low, who has been married for 51 years. Marriage is now, as it has always been, hard work. Marriage...
...there might be a possible solution to at least part of the problem. Students in Grades 2 through 6 who took part in a violence-resolution program--and learned to solve disagreements with words instead of fists--ended up being less hostile. This channeling of anger had one additional benefit. Those who took the classes often did better academically than those...