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Harvard is a precious resource and a unique institution. It should now do for itself and for higher education what it seeks to do for other communities and professions. In order to remain true to its mission, to govern itself wisely in a challenging and rapidly changing world, and to meet better its obligations to both students and faculty, Harvard should establish a center devoted to the study of university self-governance and the ethics of academic life...
...reason is that Paxil, Prozac, Luvox and the others all target the same brain chemical, called serotonin, which seems to govern mood. Too little serotonin, and patients tend to feel negative about themselves and the world around them in one way or another. How that dissatisfaction manifests itself--clinical depression, anxiety, phobias, obsessions, even eating disorders--depends on a complex web of factors that researchers have yet to unravel. But they do know that drugs that keep serotonin from being reabsorbed too quickly into the nerve cells--the so-called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs--tend to alleviate these...
...suburbia) and so hateful that they were driven to kill, we must wait for a while and ponder the painful fact that they did kill. We must take the time to ask ourselves how this affects our understanding of the world. What are the principles that we believe govern life? And why is it important to us to be able to believe that we don't live in a violent, unloving world...
...denying homosexuals the right to express their fundamental identity, this policy constitutes a de facto interdiction against gays because they are gay. But on surface it must be acknowledged that "don't ask, don't tell" is merely a behavioral regulation--one of many in the military that govern the sexuality of all servicemen and women. (For example, the military bans sex between officers and enlisted personnel, and it criminalizes adultery...
Currently, implementation of a government in Belfast separate from London to govern the six counties in Northern Ireland has been delayed until the end of this month due to a dispute over the issue of paramilitary disarmament...