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Jack Nicholson's description of terminal illness: "You go home to some ceremonial procession into death, with everyone standing around watching you die while you try to comfort them. Is that what you want? To be smothered by pity and grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Myths: The Bucket List and The Savages | 12/26/2007 | See Source »

Solution: Find a safe haven "I tell parents to have a 'safe place,' usually the child's room, where the typical child can go while an adult handles the behavior problem," says Harris. "Then, as soon as they can, the parents should comfort the typical child and help him or her understand what happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autistic Kids: The Sibling Problem | 12/24/2007 | See Source »

With the Crimson on the verge of its Ivy League season, Magnarelli’s contribution will only increase in the coming games, as his combination of athleticism and court smarts fuse with increasing experience and an a greater degree of comfort with his fellow big men junior Evan Harris and senior Brad Unger...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Power Forward Delivers in Losses | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

...Christmastime provides ample proof that mankind is not as rational, as open-minded, as free-thinking as many secular people think it and hope it could be. Secular celebrants of Christmas either ignorantly perpetuate meaningless traditions, or, even worse, find comfort and joy in observing them...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: The War Against Christmas | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

...most of the night. “We weren’t crashing for rebounds and placing shots as well as we could have,” Cahow said. Another factor in Harvard’s four-year rut versus UNH has been the team’s comfort, or lack thereof, playing on the Wildcats’ Olympic-sized rink at the Whittemore Center. At 200 by 100 feet, the rink is one of only six Olympic-sized rinks in the nation and caters well to UNH’s speedy teams. Of the teams’ last...

Author: By Rebecca A. Compton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SIDEBAR: Escalating Rivalry | 12/16/2007 | See Source »

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