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...York Times, attributed the polarization to the increased availability of information, which forces politicians to get “louder and more coarse” to win attention. He also suggested that journalists’ “bias toward conflict,” rewards politicians who breed contention, rather than those who cooperate. Joshua C. Sharp ’08, who attended the panel, said he was struck by the agreement among the panelists, despite their diverse backgrounds. He said this indicated the value of the IOP as a place where political opponents can meet and discover what they...
California's Wilson, a moderate on abortion who espouses faith in activist government, also typifies the pragmatic breed of Republican Governors. During his first year in office he even raised taxes on upper-income groups -- not just to ease an emergency budget deficit but also to help finance programs such as health care and educational assistance for children. Like Weld, Wilson is often mentioned as a potential Republican candidate for the White House...
...want a society in which people run off to get prescribed rather than feel normal emotions." While Parker acknowledges that sometimes people who don't need SSRIs receive them, he doesn't think the drugs should be confined to those with severe depression. "Anxious worriers are the new breed of depression," he says. "They're the ones for whom it's nothing like as gray, and the suicide risk is not as great, but they're living lives of quiet desperation, or irritability, or crabbiness, (feelings) that drive their depression." He's concerned about the backlash against the drugs, which...
Harvard may not breed many famous cooks, but at least two people on campus are using its dining halls as a launch pad to reinvent their futures. One is a grill cook who works here to kill the demons of his past. The other is Harvard’s youngest dining hall general manager, admired by students who have no idea that she’s a business prodigy...
...known to signal their ambitious tendencies almost from birth. Even before wolf pups are weaned, they begin sorting themselves out into alphas and all the others. The alphas are quicker, more curious, greedier for space, milk, Mom--and they stay that way for life. Alpha wolves wander widely, breed annually and may live to a geriatric 10 or 11 years old. Lower-ranking wolves enjoy none of these benefits--staying close to home, breeding rarely and usually dying before they...