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...whiteness: love of Joni Mitchell. A fondness for the Midwest. A taste for soy milk, vanilla flavored. Tendency to be underdressed at any event. Disdain for black-eyed peas. The ability to dwell, for long spells, in a world not eclipsed by race. Skin, eyes, hair. My mother...
Psychological resiliency, a concept first popularized in the early 1970s, focuses on the positive. Its evangelists don't dwell on kids who fail under stress but on those who, against long odds, succeed. "The hallmarks of a resilient child include knowing how to solve problems or knowing that there's an adult to turn to for help," says Robert Brooks, a clinical psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. "A resilient child has some sense of mastery of his own life, and if he gets frustrated by a mistake, he still feels he can learn from the mistake...
...Officials in britain were too busy acting decisively to dwell on such details. Many rural schools were closed and national parks cordoned off. The transporting of livestock was banned, which meant butcher shops had trouble finding meat to sell-and prices soared by up to 50% for what they could locate. Horse racing was suspended for seven days. The Labour government moved quickly to assuage rural misery in what will probably be an election year, picking up the entire tab for all slaughtered animals and offering a further $225 million in compensation to farmers. On Friday the government relaxed...
...from the celebratory (a budding feminist poet is crowned "the next Anne Sexton") to the snippy ("Her thank-you note to her interviewer looks like a third-grader wrote it"). Rarely, if ever, do these discussions touch on SATs, even for students who turn in 800s. The committee does dwell, however, on other scores, like those on Advanced Placement exams, SAT II's if students submit them and even state tests like New York's Regents Exams. For students who shield their SATs, these secondary scores inevitably take on more weight. The committee, for example, is divided over one straight...
...from the celebratory (a budding feminist poet is crowned "the next Anne Sexton") to the snippy ("Her thank-you note to her interviewer looks like a third-grader wrote it"). Rarely, if ever, do these discussions touch on SATs, even for students who turn in 800s. The committee does dwell, however, on other scores, like those on Advanced Placement exams, SAT II's if students submit them and even state tests like New York's Regents Exams. For students who shield their SATs, these secondary scores inevitably take on more weight. The committee, for example, is divided over one straight...