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...When I was a sophomore, LSD was just coming into its own as the drug of choice for the philosophically and intellectually inclined—it had a patent of respectability and was different from just getting high,” he says. “I was eager to try it because I was intellectually adventurous and saw it as an opportunity to blow me into a new place, a state of non-existence...
...Abrams, who served as the managing editor of The Crimson and serves as the head trustee of The Harvard Crimson Trust II, said that as art collectors he and his wife “spent our life together building up special material,” but that she was eager to share it with others...
Washburn added that Abrams was eager to “create art opportunities” for people with special needs, “based on their abilities, not disabilities...
...first, the Palestinians considered themselves lucky. Captured fighters later told Israeli interrogators they had expected an air strike. The Israelis had repeatedly bombed police barracks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; they didn't seem eager to risk the casualties of house-to-house combat. Ata Abu Roumeileh, a leader of the Fatah gunmen in the camp, now in hiding, told TIME that it was only when his forces saw the Israelis advancing on foot that they decided to stay and fight...
...Margo Maine, the author of Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters and Food (Gurze Books) has treated thousands of girls in her 20-year career. She has observed that "a high percentage of them said they felt disconnected from their fathers. They were desperate for approval and not getting it. Girls eager for attention from their fathers will diet as a way to get it. Fathers tend to pull away when their girls hit adolescence, which makes things worse. Dads have no idea how much their daughters need them at this point." Or how much what they say matters. Maine notes that...