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...diagnosed with mental disorders in ever-increasing quantities. His suggestions—that “the age of onset [may be] dropping” or that, in the past, “young people with mental disorders might not have made it to Harvard” ring hollow; perhaps it’s rather that college administrators, who ought to be the ones caring for and listening to students, instead want to explain away any dissonance between the realities of student experience and the persistently happy, fully-functioning normative individual by recourse to our determinate and inviolable...
...turn down a road that is made, at best, for two skinny cars to get to her house in the hollow. Greg Lynch grew up half a mile from here, in the house his great-grandmother lived in. He picked out the spot for his future home when he was 11 years old. "We raised three kids in four rooms, and we were happy and content," Dee says, "but with Jessi's disability, we just knew there was no way." When they learned their daughter was alive but in a pretty broken state, they debated what they were going...
...partial-birth” abortion ban tears at the fabric of Roe v. Wade, I wasn’t too worried about the new legislation. I knew that “partial-birth” abortions were pretty rare, and so it all seemed like a hollow victory for the pro-life lobby. That was until I read the fine print. There is one exception built into the ban—doctors are allowed to perform the operation if the pregnancy puts the woman’s life in danger (pro-life legislators can be so generous sometimes). But that?...
...jeans, Frumin sits by a window at Europa before HSU, surveying the action as club staff prepare the venue and stock the bars. With no partygoers at the moment, the three adjacent rooms of the club Europa—dance floor, pool room and lounge—appear like hollow red caverns. As a club staff member walks by, Frumin stops him, asking, “When is this thing starting up?” “We don’t expect people until at least 10:30,” he replies. He nods. Several members...
...American, abused, angry and alarming. He warned young Americans to think about a draft, joked about Dick Cheney’s cardiac health, and lashed out at the “Divided States of Embarrassment” for abandoning free speech. The national rhetoric of redemption began to ring hollow as this spokesperson of the Midwestern underclass resonated all the way to Harvard; sales tripled those of his previous release...