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...those of us who follow the news and try to report it, these kinds of circumstances are dispiriting. Political assassination is almost routine. Sometimes I feel it is carried out without any real strategy: either out of spite or to enforce the creeping authoritarianism of the status quo, to remind society of where things stand. The assassins and the powers behind them are on automatic; the ordinary citizen has now learned not to be surprised. Saddened, yes. Shocked...
...Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 expressed uneasiness with the way the findings were presented, proposing that the racial categories used in the survey could obscure its results. Reeves also said that he was worried that the survey, which was conducted anonymously, did not include a way to follow up with troubled students, especially those who indicated that they had considered or attempted suicide. Wong said that it was important to keep in mind that these results were presented in isolation. “Mental health is not an area by itself. I can?...
...Those declines followed a trickle of new data suggesting a slowing of U.S. economic activity, and follow-through damage inflicted by the global financial crisis. Statistics released Wednesday showed American retail sales were off 1.2% in September - almost double the expected decline. That added weight to other indicators suggesting U.S. consumer spending - which represents nearly 70% of American economic activity - is declining due to fears over economic turmoil and job security...
...adoring trust sister places in brother, whether she's a child sneaking out with him via rooftop at night ("I'm not scared, and I just do what he does, it is not difficult when we do it in time with each other, he goes first and I follow"), a young woman trying to match his daring or an old woman narrating the memory of her love...
...along with Lisa Todorovich from the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, organized a roundtable of presidential historians: Richard Norton Smith, who has run five presidential libraries, Beverly Gage of Yale, and David Coleman and Russell Riley of the Miller Center. Excerpts from their conversation follow Nancy Gibbs' wise and penetrating cover story. You can listen to the whole thing on TIME.com...