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...prefecting program makes some strides towards bridging this gap between upperclass students and first-years, but in light of the infrequent contact between prefects and their first-years, it cannot provide the same level of advising as an R.A. system. Study breaks once a week do not give first-years an opportunity to have meaningful interaction with upperclass students. Occasional outings are pleasant, but are too rare to foster a true sense of kinship. Most first-years think of their prefects as nice people, but they are unlikely to search them out to talk about anything substantive...
...Friedman recently stated that our failure to anticipate the attacks of the 11th was not an intelligence failure, but a failure of imagination. Yes and no. I would say that the terrorists took advantage of an imagination credibility gap. Prior to the attacks, we may well have imagined the possibility of using planes to destroy buildings, or the capture of Air Force One, or the stealing of a nuclear device to threaten the world, or the earth colliding with a Rhode Island-sized asteroid. But all of these thoughts were not possibilities to be feared or contingencies to be mulled...
Isis founders said they hope to close the gender gap on the campus social scene...
While boomers are fast making adjustments to their households, they're still dealing with their own generation gap and worry about what their parents feel about what the grandkids are up to. Cheryl and Dale Andersen, of Bourbonnais, Ill., have two kids, Jeremy, 25, and Jill, 23. Their daughter lives with her boyfriend, which the Andersens were reluctant to tell her grandparents. Yet they are seeing some benefits in her living arrangement. Dale thinks it has made her more mature "and has taught her many life lessons." Jill is spending money on bills and things for the apartment rather than...
...Week—could place it easily into the net. Westfall’s pass was unconventional yet fundamental. There is little more rudimentary in soccer than making the ball available in open spaces where teammates have an advantage, and there was no better open space than the gap between the Yale wall and the goalkeeper...