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...counterparts.“I don’t know that many Harvard students,” Hattier says. “With the exception of a few of us, we stick together.”Visiting junior Joshua D. Miller says that many Tulane students “clung to each other” because “we were put in same dorm…[and] have all had the same experience.”This shared experience often eliminated the pressure and fatigue of being an object of curiosity. Joshua Miller says that, among Harvard students...
...offspring archetypes--the thumb sucker, the binky addict, the colicky screamer--is more feared than the bad sleeper, and parents will try any formula that offers the prospect of some rest. Sleep manuals outsell even the baby bible What to Expect When You're Expecting. For years, parents have clung to competing sleep-training camps (Never wake a sleeping baby! No naps in the stroller!) in hopeful desperation. So when Dr. Richard Ferber, author of the best-selling 1985 book Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems, seemingly backpedaled on his signature "cry it out" technique last week, saying his program...
...Club was an anachronistic institution even then. Born during the suffrage movement, The Club clung to its Victorian roots, and eventually suffered...
...just don't think the political class can attack these problems," says Stephane Rozes, a political analyst and pollster. "They see gestures, not problem solving." For years, disgruntled immigrant youths have been trying to attract government attention--occasionally by mounting violent disturbances like last week's. But France has clung to its belief that once black and Muslim and Arab newcomers arrive, they are officially French and do not need special treatment to guarantee their equality. While in theory the children of immigrants have the same rights as their white counterparts, many suffer persistent discrimination when it comes to jobs...
...collapsed school building to help dig out some 200 students trapped inside, enraged parents hurled stones at the soldiers. As choppers touched down in wrecked mountain hamlets, survivors mobbed the crews and fought one another for blankets and biscuits. Some Pakistani officials reported that several times stranded earthquake victims clung to a chopper as it lifted off, nearly causing it to crash...