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...children worldwide annually emigrate from more than 100 countries through adoption, a trend increasing rapidly in the U.S. since the 1970s. But these foreign adoptees are far more likely to internalize their problems, suffering more commonly from depression or separation anxiety disorders. Domestic adoptees, on the other hand, tend to act out. While consistent with adolescents studied in both North America and Western Europe, Keyes says, this finding "goes against preconceived notions that kids from foreign cultures would have a harder time adapting to new families...
...unfortunately-christened “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy of the United States Military has truly become the rallying cry for activists intent on limiting ROTC’s official position on campus. And indeed the hand-wringing over this policy has provoked some rather excessive comparisons...
...said Spector, a junior at Brown. “I’m still in school. I want to do important things with my life,” he added, blushing as the audience laughed at his implicit diss of the other Internet memes. On the other hand, Matt Harding of the website “Where the Hell is Matt?” finds his work—creating videos of himself doing a goofy dance in different locations around the world—to be very fulfilling. “I do find meaning in what...
...response is heartbreaking. “By the Sea,” Lovett’s sung fantasy of future domestic bliss with Sweeney, is one of the show’s most poignant moments.Sondheim develops these two central impulses—toward love and companionship on the one hand, revenge and destruction on the other—into the vast network of scenes and characters that comprise his vision of 19th-century London. The show’s skeletal set, designed by Grace C. Laubacher ’09, changes from a courtroom to a city street with ease...
...loudspeakers, worshipers straggled in late, while one of the religious leaders joked about having to compete with TV sitcoms. When the service did start, it was far from the austere, silent genuflection associated with Sunni prayer. There were sermons, call-and-response sessions, rituals such as a boy-girl hand-washing session, and a lighting of lamps, along with long stretches of traditional music and singing...