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...Karen Gordon, at the Princeton University Health Center. This year she has seen "an increase in the number of cases reported both in students and employees." However, she adds, "from my understanding, we do not have the sort of numbers that Harvard has." In an informal study, several dozen undergraduates and graduate students interviewed from Yale, Princeton, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, and Williams, only six had heard of it and only one knew of a fellow student who had had it. In a similar survey conducted at Harvard, all 30 students questioned had heard of RSIs...
...Harvard-Radcliffe RSI Action Group usually holds its meetings in the Quincy House Junior Common Room. At their most recent meeting, a circle of a dozen students seated on chairs and sofas ringed a coffee table. On its surface were liter bottles of soft drinks, bags of chips and cookies, and unsteady columns of piled plastic cups threatening to tumble over on top of the large University Dining Services fruit and cheese plate which had pushed them to the edge of the round tabletop. Podolsky and Ben Rahn, the other leader of the group, welcomed everyone and then went through...
...When we began this concentration six years ago, we anticipated two dozen concentrators, and now there are over 100," McCarthy says. "The concentration came into being because students wanted it. [It's] pretty successful, I would...
...course, we enter the uncertain and fraught territory of social change--the gun debate alone is already deafening--but not all the social advocates are woolly-headed. The awkwardly named group Fight Crime: Invest in Kids counts eight crime survivors and more than a dozen police chiefs on its advisory board, including former New York City police commissioner William Bratton. The Washington-based group's four-point plan is touchingly well meaning: 1) give kids something to do after school; 2) make sure young children have access to quality child care; 3) help schools identify troubled kids early and provide...
...accomplished French author of the 1985 best seller The City of Joy recapitulates in honeyed prose more than a dozen stories he covered in his long career in journalism. He interviews the bullfighter El Cordobes and retraces Mahatma Gandhi's last moments. Much of the narrative runs to the cloyingly inspirational, and a good deal of it challenges credulity. For example, Caryl Chessman, awaiting execution at San Quentin, is portrayed as an intellectual who speaks in finely wrought sentences as he discourses about crime prevention, citing Albert Camus ("What a writer!"). Oh, what a mess...