Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These children have a strong framework of morals and a clear perception of what is right and what is wrong. And while children who commit "carbon copy" crimes aren't necessarily immoral, they aren't easily able to see the distinction between television and reality...
...report by the Journal of College StudentPsychotherapy last year found that about eight in100,000 college students commit suicide, and thatmale students are twice as likely to killthemselves as female students...
...attempts raise an issue not often discussed openly in the Harvard community. On average, one or two Harvard students commit suicide per year, said Dr. Randolph Catlin, chief of mental health services at UHS, although the number is "very variable...
...People that really commit suicide are peoplethat want to die," Catlin said. "People that makesuicide attempts are sending messages that theyneed help...
...that the p.c. and multicultural movements are leading to a more general separatism, a fragmentation of the centrist consensus that built America. To study anyone's culture but one's own -- unless one is white, in which case it is necessary to learn about the oppressed others -- is to commit an act of identity suicide. Beyond this loss of interest in universal ideas, often expressed as disbelief that anything is actually universal, Duke political scientist James David Barber sees a growing attitude that reason and factuality themselves are European cultural artifacts. Says Barber: "I think a lot of 'impressionism...