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...counseling from freshmen who are having trouble making the adjustment to college life. Despite all their technical sophistication, she says, older teenagers increasingly lack the skills to deal with personal problems that aren't easily defined or fixed. "They have 'point-and-click' expectations," she says. And they get homesick but have a hard time admitting...
...example, by teaching them to budget their hours and their dollars. The Harveys think high schools should offer a college-life course to college-bound seniors. Parents need to "focus more on relationship and personal issues and less on how many sheets and towels to take," they say. Many homesick freshmen think they'll be regarded as failures if they come home before Thanksgiving, so parents can help by letting them know they're welcome to return if they feel the need. In the meantime, parents have to find new ways to keep in touch with their college kids...
...also worried about his wife, who has to raise their three kids on her own while he is away. His former students still stop by his house to have dinner with Lorri and offer to mow her lawn. And Morris calls home each night. "He's been very, very homesick," Lorri says. "But I tell him, 'I've got home plate covered. You don't worry about what's going on here...
...most of us struggle to find our niches. In such a--dare I say it--artificial environment, it's tough to feel at home. Even if you love love love Harvard, I guarantee you'll have a couple of homesick or lonely days. This is natural at any college, but at Harvard it's particularly pronounced because the environment here is so unusual...
...died there, in homesick exile, on Jan. 26, 1962. Unlike so many of his predecessors and colleagues, he expired of natural causes, a coronary--an occupational hazard common to hard-driving executives. Or maybe he was just lucky. Italian and U.S. officials quickly announced they had been about to arrest him in a $150 million heroin ring. The fatal attack came at an airport, where he had gone to meet a Hollywood producer...