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Certainly the premise of Reviving Ophelia (which takes its title from the doomed Hamlet heroine) is a familiar one. Pipher believes adolescence is an especially precarious time for girls, a time when the fearless, outgoing child is replaced by the unhappy and insecure girl-woman. "Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence," Pipher writes. "Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves." She decided to write the book because her own practice was increasingly occupied by girls--mostly white and middle class, she says--coping with...
...Fast and fearless, these mice were six times as likely to pick a fight as normal, wild-type mice. And they scratched and bit so fiercely that researchers had to intervene to keep them from killing their rivals. Moreover, the males engaged in "excessive and inappropriate" sexual advances, mounting females despite "substantial vocal protestations." "It was very dramatic," says Dr. Solomon Snyder of Johns Hopkins. "The females would squeal, 'Rape! Rape! Rape!' but the males just wouldn't stop...
Constructive discussion presupposes a measure of equality among persons that, regrettably, sits uncomfortably (if at all) with Professor Mansfield's public statements. A fearless and robust discussion of affirmative action would feature vigorous disagreements and sustained criticism. Given the variety of perspectives and breadth of political commitments within the Harvard community, this would be welcome indeed. But when disagreements assume the form of ad hominem arguments by tenured faculty toward graduate students' qualifications, the discussion is no longer principled disagreement but, rather, personal attack. Without evidence or credible justification, such accusations amount to little more than ideologically-charged assaults upon...
...have entered the slaphappy phase of their revolution, killing regulations simply because they can. Indeed, the nursing-home industry has not even asked for regulatory relief, in part because it would allow unscrupulous operators to flourish and bring shame on all of them. But Speaker Gingrich is hurtling along, fearless about sending Mom and Dad back to the future, to the day of nursing homes that lack nurses and feel nothing like home...
Although most of the pieces in the first act recount the woes of glutton, Faithfull shows neither regret nor bitterness. She is assertive and fearless, especially in the show's title song in a deadly serious tone, her voice grows dark and low as the song becomes a fiendish incitement rather than a cautionary word of advice. For this number, she naturally lit her first and only cigarette of the performance, hardly drawing...