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...suicide in a community can become a trigger for other people who are at risk," Waterson explains. Suicide clusters generally occur among teenagers and young adults, though patterns have been reported in groups of marine troops, religious sects and psychiatric inpatients. But the cases in Gnosall cover a broad age spectrum, and the deceased, by all accounts, were not close to one another. Khan points out that the suicide rate has fallen there in the past three years, and Kelly rejects the idea that this year's series has anything to do with the place itself. "They are individual cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Suicide Capital of England | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

This year’s rankings include a broad spectrum of characters—some fictional—ranging from Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to rapper Jay-Z to Mark E. Zuckerberg, the former member of the Class of 2006 who founded Facebook...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dean Makes ‘Power 50’ List | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...longstanding political bias towards the Whig Party, and their “facts” should not be taken at face value. I believe a president without any student government experience whatsoever is something we desperately need. The UC is a highly self-selecting group of people, encompassing a broad range of students who are all brought together by the common desire to yell aimlessly...

Author: By Matthew T. Valente | Title: Martel-Zimmermann: A New Brand of Student Advocacy | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...Faculty meeting on Nov. 13, I moved “that this faculty commits itself to fostering a civil dialogue in which people with a broad range of perspectives feel safe and are encouraged to express their reasoned and evidence-based ideas.” I intended this motion not as a new law but as an ethical pledge to think and talk about how to fulfill the university’s highest ideals in the context of difficult issues in difficult times. My colleagues voted massively (74-27) to “table” the motion?...

Author: By J. lorand Matory | Title: Orwellian Uses of ‘Free Speech’ | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...University policy and practice. I asked them, as my partners in the pursuit of truth and fairness, to add their thoughts and efforts to creating a conversation full of respect and free of intimidation about even the hottest of issues—a conversation in which people with a broad range of reasoned opinions and historical perspectives are actively invited to participate, a conversation in which the majority and the most highly placed people do not assume that, once they have heard from each other, they have heard enough. Their response was a massive and freely spoken vote to shut...

Author: By J. lorand Matory | Title: Orwellian Uses of ‘Free Speech’ | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

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