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Coop Director Frank Montgomery explained that the Weber incident is not, as would seem obvious, The Coop's fault, but rather a product of professors' insistance that certain editions are used for their classes...
...says he could have played better in that game, was either showing his age--34 at the time--or his despair at the burning the week before of the Inner City Community Church, the Knoxville, Tennessee, house of worship in which he is an associate pastor. Nobody could fault Favre's on-field performance, but there were a few close friends who felt he was in denial about his addiction to the painkiller Vicodin, a denial helped along by his being named the N.F.L.'s Most Valuable Player by the Associated Press. The Packers were set up for a fall...
...course, not every American has profited from this employment largesse. A fault line divides the workers with the knowledge and credentials to get good jobs from those individuals, many of whom live in inner cities, who lack the basic education to cash in. Significant regional variations apply too. Beyond Wall Street and Boston's high-tech belt, the Northeast has barely begun to recapture jobs lost in the last downturn. And the fear of downsizing still sends shivers through offices and factories at Fortune 500 companies everywhere, destroying any sense of job entitlement and dampening employee wage demands...
...molecules that facilitate serotonin reabsorption"? After years of psychotherapy, ingesting the serotonin-producing drug Prozac and beating up on myself for being so "weak," I now learn that science is suggesting I am perhaps no more responsible for being anxious than is the hemophiliac for his medical condition. The fault is not mine; it's in the genes. Not a character flaw but a genetic predisposition. What a blessed, redemptive relief! But now I am worried. How can they be sure? JUDITH M. FITTGE New Orleans
...second headline on your story, "The fault, dear Sigmund, may be in our genes," took a potshot at Sigmund Freud. You should not have implied that Freud omitted constitutional factors as a cause of neuroses. Nothing could be further from the truth. Over and over, Freud cited the individual's constitution as an important factor disposing to neurosis. Further, it is misleading to ascribe the label neurotic to everyone who might be carrying this newly discovered short gene. So-called normal people can also be anxious and worried. GAIL S. REED New York City...