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Cale emerged onto the stage and began with a reading of the lyrics to "Lament," beginning to play his keyboard only after he had read out the first few lines. Looking younger than his 56 years, Cale dressed in a black t-shirt and vest. Rarely smiling, he maintained the unenthusiastic stage presence he had established for himself years ago. John Cale's legend began with the release of the first Velvet Underground album in 1967. After being forced out of the band following the release of the band's second record, Cale followed a career of producing albums...
Nonetheless, what Gurian and Pollack both bitterly lament--and convincingly illustrate--is the peculiar pain, and the potential loneliness, of being a boy in America today. Especially acute are the adolescent years, when boys look hulking and powerful but are in fact needy and terrified. The statistics are scary: adolescent boys are five times as likely to commit suicide as adolescent girls; adolescent boys are 1.5 times as likely as girls to be victims of violent crime; boys are more likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit disorder and mental illnesses; and boys commit violent crime at a higher rate...
Most kids, though, lament that their parents aren't much help at all on sexual matters. They either avoid the subject, miss the mark by starting the discussion too long before or after the sexual encounter, or just plain stonewall them. "I was nine when I asked my mother the Big Question," says Michael, in Detroit. "I'll never forget. She took out her driver's license and pointed to the line about male or female. 'That is sex,' she said." Laurel, a 17-year-old in Murfreesboro, Tenn., wishes her parents had taken more time with her to shed...
...while Square preservationists may lament the closing of several landmark Cambridge institutions, newcomers to the Square this year say their businesses are thriving...
...departmental head tutors, in addition to having no incentive other than embarrassment to change their ways, complain that they face over-powering constraints on what they are capable of offering so many undergraduates, given the department's limited resources. They lament that they cannot ensure that upperclass students have access to residential advisors because this is the domain of the individual Houses. In response, the senior tutors within these individual Houses point out that it is the department's responsibility to advise its own students regardless of whether the House is able to hire a resident tutor in every large...