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...that hotline staff should remain completely anonymous so that the caller is comfortable. Others point out that if you know that people you like and respect are hotline staffers, you may have more confidence in the group and be more likely to call if the need arises. Though the latter argument raises a good point, it seems more likely that students would avoid calling those they know. After all, if you are calling an anonymous hotline, you are probably looking for just that--anonymity. Anything that undermines that cannot be good...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: Help Is Just a Phone Call Away | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...Hawaii has another tradition besides political liberalism: Christianity. Nineteenth century missionaries did a fantastic job here. Even today fully one-quarter of the residents belong to just two denominations, the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Latter-day Saints are major landowners, and Brigham Young University has a Hawaii campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Better Or Worse | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...world of Dena Nordstrom, a glamorous TV newswoman, people come in two varieties: corn pone and ruthless shark. The former populate the safe, static Missouri town of Dena's early youth, and the latter stalk the corridors of Manhattan, where career-obsessed Dena collapses from stress. She's forced finally to confront the hole at the middle of her existence: the unexplained disappearance of her mother when Dena was just 15. As the narrative shifts in time and place to unravel the mystery, the action is as shamelessly unsubtle as the characters are cliched. That said, this third novel from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! By Fannie Flagg | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...author is "removed" from him by one generation). Sarah Payne Stuart '73 treats "Bobby" (as the family called Robert Lowell) as both a biological and literary predecessor, confronting the very madcap hypocrisy running through her bloodline that Lowell did in his poetry--the very hypocrisy that drove the latter many times to violently manic depressive breakdowns in various mental hospitals along the East Coast. However, Stuart sees the situation not as mentally debilitating but as a forum for exploiting her established sense of wry humor and caustically tongue-in-cheek comedy. In a sense, the psychiatrist's diagnosis...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bizarre Brahmins Lives Revealed: Cousin Tells All | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...real success of Pack Up The Cats is the second half of the album, which strays from typical rock conventions and moves toward a more expressive tone. The latter half also reveals the best of Local H: the guitars, bass and drive that makes you turn up the volume to ear-bleeding level and pound the crap out of your roommates. Save up any frustration before listening and let it loose singing along with both the vocals and the guitar, but be sure to take the occasional soft section as a break, because the intensity with which Local H hits...

Author: By Benjamin L. Kornell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Catty Driving Music For Suburban Illinois | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

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