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Whether or not you agree that classes should have begun as scheduled, you have to respect the sympathy and sensitivity behind Summers’ decision. Like all of us, the burden of carrying on was heavy upon him. Summers bore that burden with sincerity and determination, and I applaud him for having the courage to share his struggle with...
...story on how the makers of attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder medications are advertising their products direct to consumers [HEALTH, Sept. 10] bore the headline "New Ritalin Ad Blitz Makes Parents Jumpy." While a number of pharmaceutical companies are running consumer ads, contrary to what the headline states, Novartis, the maker of Ritalin, has never had a direct-to-consumer advertising campaign for its medication. TIME regrets the error...
While my roommate struggles each night through chapter after chapter of hellish chemistry bore, I read about hermaphrodites and the 14 sexes. While my other roommate memorizes every artism there ever was, I ponder the implications of Freud’s theory of female penis-envy on modern relationships. It’s a great life; I’d highly recommend...
Chaminade High School, an all-boys Catholic school in Mineola, N. Y., on Long Island, bore a bigger burden than most, losing 62 family members, friends and alumni in the tragedy. But its religious moorings gave teachers a language with which to talk about grief. Students prayed for the victims at the beginning of each class and in their Monday-afternoon prayer clubs. The optional lunchtime prayer service was standing-room only, with some lingering long afterward. But grieving students mostly huddled in private conversations with their teachers. At this sturdy school, where even adolescents with braces are called "Chaminade...
Eleanor, visiting the West Coast after Pearl Harbor, bore witness to the hysteria directed against Japanese Americans. Government officials swooped down upon Japanese banks, stores and houses. Swimming against the tide of prejudice, Eleanor antagonized many Californians when she called for tolerance and posed for a picture with U.S.-born Japanese Americans; the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times reacted angrily and called for her forcible retirement from public life. The First Lady responded that more than fairness was at stake: "Almost the biggest obligation we have today is to prove that in a time of stress...