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...situation, indefinitely," a senior official said. By then, the official number of suicide attempts was 32, though I knew it was actually far higher. The military kept the number low by labeling most attempted suicides as "manipulative self-injurious behavior" or "self-harm" incidents, a practice that became more frequent as time went on. In January 2005, the Pentagon disclosed that 350 "self-harm" incidents had occurred in 2003, including 120 "hanging gestures...
...while Batman’s nifty cape and superhero attitude go with the job, BAT team uniforms and professionalism are currently a touchy subject among HoCos, who are the BAT teams’ most frequent clients. “We’ll be having a formal,” Mark J. Stanisz ’05, former Lowell HoCo Treasurer says, “and they’ll show up completely out of character, wearing jeans and t-shirt...
...energetically within a concentration—at the expense of interdisciplinary breadth—then this indicates another serious shortcoming that the curricular review has only been able to address tangentially. And even within one’s own concentration, contact with senior faculty is rare and not as frequent as one might hope. When it occurs, exchanges are often marked by formality and the seeming need, on part of the student, to impress the professor. Some faculty members, such as Kemper Professor of History James T. Kloppenberg, complain that students only come to speak to them with something clever...
...into legislation only because Ishiba and Maehara worked together to break down interparty rivalries. Then there's Ichita Yamamoto, a 47-year-old LDP member and a graduate of Georgetown University, who says that 70-80% of the newly elected parliamentarians are in support of amending the constitution. A frequent guest on TV political talk shows and a strident critic of North Korea, Yamamoto was a vocal proponent of a law passed last year that prohibits uninsured ships from entering Japanese ports. Because most North Korean vessels don't have insurance, the legislation effectively cut off the rogue regime from...
...life without round-the-clock pizza delivery, and come to appreciate the charm of Boston’s brick-laden, cobbled-street neighborhoods. Despite the grudging fondness I’ve developed for Beantown, when senior job panic rolled around, I spent my fall submitting applications, racking up frequent flier miles, and assuming this July would see me safely back in the City, where I belonged...