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...Beanpot tournament, players competed with bloody noses and lips, hyper-extended knees and other injuries...
...Jabbar, the center for the Lakers, to Teresa, this totally hot girl in Algebra I. A few of the guys evolve flawlessly. One week they're collecting baseball cards, and the next they're driving Mustangs and dating Teresas. The rest of us retreat into a sort of refined hyper-geekdom. As kids we may have played with toy soldiers or plastic tanks or HO railways. Now slightly more mature, we get deeply, almost disturbingly (to our parents) into very specific aspects of military modeling. It is at this stage that many of us discover Japan, or at least...
...they're shortsighted, say the experts on play. Alvin Rosenfeld, co-author of The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap, holds an old-fashioned view of play: it's joyful and emotionally nourishing. Stuart Brown, a retired psychiatrist and founder of the Institute for Play in Carmel Valley, Calif., believes that too little play may have a dark side. What Brown calls "play deprivation" can lead, he says, to depression, hostility and the loss of "the things that make us human beings...
...worth mentioning that many of their other recommendations were addressed by past members of the former SAC. In fact, democratically electing committee chairs was an idea that was debated endlessly over the years. The caveat remains that by instituting constant elections, the Institute could become an increasingly hyper-political and politicized organization, with constant internal campaigning and strategic planning. Such an atmosphere would be corrosive to the Institute and hurts the hopes of attracting the atypical yet politically-interested undergraduate. The purpose of the Institute should be to inspire all undergraduates into public life and careers in politics...
...History warns that revolution lurks within these "contradictions," but history also reminds us how beleaguered regimes have traditionally dealt with the volcano inside. The classic prescription is to "busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels," as Shakespeare's Henry IV told his successor. It is hyper-nationalism and xenophobia that fuses regime and people, rich and poor, losers and winners in one Great National Whole. Jingoism is the traditional antidote against discontent and revolt, and the Chinese have been made to lap from this fount aplenty. Remember the week-long war of the aroused masses against the U.S. diplomatic compound...