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There may even be a biological basis to all this. The human brain continues to grow and change into the early 20s, according to Abigail Baird, who runs the Laboratory for Adolescent Studies at Dartmouth. "We as a society deem an individual at the age of 18 ready for adult responsibility," Baird points out. "Yet recent evidence suggests that our neuropsychological development is many years from being complete. There's no reason to think 18 is a magic number." How can the twixters be expected to settle down when their gray matter hasn...
...work. Certainly, if you do poorly on a paper it is comforting to have an excuse for your failure, namely that you didn’t spend much time on that assignment. Were you to do poorly on a paper you wrote without the delay of procrastination, you might deem yourself mediocre. An alternative explanation is that students procrastinate simply because they can: as academic superstars, they don’t need to utilize all of their time. No matter how you slice it, as long as there is a reading period there will be two extra weeks to procrastinate...
Make no mistake about it: to deem this weekend’s homestand against No. 9 Cornell and No. 13 Colgate anything less than crucial for the No. 12 Harvard men’s hockey team would be entirely false...
Which makes the recent twin performances of Justin Tobe, a sophomore transfer from Michigan State, all the more important. Though it remains entirely premature to deem Tobe “the next Dov,” the incoming netminder has impressed in recent weeks, earning a pair of wins in as many starts and racking up 52 saves between the two contests...
...Those who have implored Barghouti to run want him in the race precisely because they fear Abbas will close down the intifadah and negotiate a peace deal with Israel that they would deem tantamount to a Palestinian surrender in exchange for very little. Many of those urging him to drop out believe splitting the Palestinian national movement now would be a victory for its enemies, and hold that their best hopes lie in backing Abbas at the same time as restraining him by virtue of his dependence on their support...