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Response counselors often re-enact hotline conversations to develop empathy with the victims they treat. They performed one of these role plays for The Crimson...
...Should Harvard enact some sort of policy to deal with faculty members, employees, or affiliates who contract AIDS...
Alfred Stieglitz, who was to become her mentor, promoter, lover and husband and who, with her, would enact one of the great partnerships of American culture, grasped the other side of this immediately. "At last," he exclaimed on seeing her drawings in 1916, "a woman on paper!" For in the last analysis, one cannot imagine the peculiar sensibility of her work -- its steely finesse and suppleness, its imagery of blossoming, unfolding and embrace -- coming with such conviction, or perhaps at all, from a man. O'Keeffe was a woman of exquisite moral vigor. Now that she is dead, no effort...
...reform has been subverted over the years by the proliferation of lobbyists and the spiraling cost of election campaigns, two trends that go together like a hand and a pocket. The result has often been institutional paralysis. The very fact that Congress and the White House felt compelled to enact the Gramm-Rudman measure, requiring automatic spending cuts, is a monument to the inability of weak-willed legislators to say no to the lobbyists who buzz around them...
...moment, Mikhail Gorbachev appears to have the prestige, backing and energy to enact his plans for revivifying the economy. But without basic changes in the rigid restrictions of a central planning system, it is doubtful that he can turn the country into an efficient economic competitor with the West...