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There has been no official announcement, but Pinker notified Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke and Hauser of his decision to accept Harvard’s offer yesterday morning, according to Hauser and Spelke...
Several weeks ago, Tufts University senior Elizabeth E. Monnin was privately notified that she was to be awarded one of 12 annual Senior Awards for leadership and academic achievement from the Tufts Alumni Association. But on Friday, the Tufts Daily revealed that the award had been rescinded—the first such revocation in the Senior Awards’ 46-year history. What horrific secret came to light in the time between the two events...
...social politesse.” Demonstrating a lack of common decency is not the same as carrying out valuable social protest. Publicly showing opposition to George H.W. Bush is understandable, and maybe even laudable. But making lewd gestures at him is not courageous—it is infantile. If Elizabeth Monnin cannot understand this, she should be receiving a lecture on the nature of leadership, not a reward for practicing it. And it seems The Staff would benefit from joining her tutorial...
...Elizabeth Smart brainwashed, as her father insists? Does she need to be deprogrammed like some runaway Moonie or Hare Krishna? Or is she simply a victim of the famous Stockholm syndrome, named for a 1973 Swedish bank robbery in which the hostages began to identify with their captors...
...Elizabeth Cohen found herself in a house in upstate New York balancing a new baby, Ava, and her father, who was in the early stages of Alzheimer's, by herself. Her husband had lasted nine weeks in the menage, then departed for the winter. But as Cohen records in The House on Beartown Road (Random House; 256 pages), a curious symmetry emerged out of the chaos. As one of her charges misplaced words, the other found them for the first time. "They skirt language in opposite directions," she writes. "Daddy mixes fragments of words together to make new ones...