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...size never fits all, especially when it comes to mental health. That’s why the Virginia State Legislature’s recent decision to prohibit the state’s public universities from punishing students who attempt to commit suicide with expulsion or mandatory time off will cause far more problems than it solves...
When the cod was anonymously returned several days later, legislators and police laughed off the thievery and no one was ever charged for the crime. As a result, the Lampoon’s members obtained an outlaw reputation that they felt obligated to refresh every so often by committing new, even more fiendish pranks. By contrast, if the police had obtained search warrants to invade the Lampoon Castle, carted off evidence, and arrested Lampoon staff, future members likely would have been too fearful to commit another prank for years...
...your long-term objectives, Allen advises. That will ensure that important items on the distant horizon don't fall by the wayside. In Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology, the "weekly review" is the most important element, according to devotees. It's easy to avoid and hard to commit to, but Allen says building it into your routine helps systemize effective planning...
Still, a line can be drawn at some point as to what constitutes a "Jewish view," and it is fair to say that both Weiss and Finkelstein have routinely crossed that line. They not only disparage other Jewish opinions as inauthentic and conspiratorial, but have supported those who commit violence and threaten genocide against the Jewish people...
...beautiful and mysterious Ipek, whom Ka has always had a thing for, has separated from her husband and is helping her sister and aging father to manage the Snow Palace Hotel in Kars.As Ka travels through the dilapidated neighborhoods of Kars interviewing the families of girls who had committed suicide, he hears of lives of quiet desperation: 16-year-olds engaged to elderly men, girls subjected to verbal and physical abuse by fathers and husbands, and so on.Yet the histories of “head-scarf girls” of the Institute are different: these are comparatively privileged girls whose...