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...Yeah, I am mad!” says Riley C.G. Mendoza ’04, amid a string of complaints. “We don’t really have that many options.” Simeon M. Zahl ’04 says the recent sabbaticals have left him in a bit of a quandary: “Dude, I have to take four classes in German history next year because both of the people who teach German history are gone,” he says. Some concentrators, such as Michael M. Sutton ’05, note that...
Some parents in Aspen, Colo., are hopping mad that their kids may learn Downward-Facing Dog in school. At a packed school-board meeting last week, Steve Woodrow, a Baptist minister and parent of two students at Aspen Elementary School, challenged the school's plan to teach yoga this fall on the grounds that instruction in the ancient practice of breathing and stretching introduces religion into the classroom and thus is unconstitutional. School officials planned to launch a program called Yoga Ed, already used in public schools in Los Angeles, Seattle and Columbus, Ohio, in hopes that it would help...
Given so many maladies to choose from, a person who can't find at least one of his problems covered somewhere in DSM-IV must have something really wrong with him. Unless, that is, his problem is someone else--a child, mate or parent, say. Until recently, being driven mad by others and driving others mad was known as life. It didn't have a name--at least not a medically sanctioned name that could be listed on insurance forms and used in advertisements for pharmaceuticals...
...like Lolita and Humbert Humbert in one body--and he installs her in a fancy apartment. Sugar's rise is rapid, but as a great man once said, mo' money, mo' problems. On her way up she has to deal with Rackham's dysfunctional family, including his half-mad mystic wife Agnes and his devout but lustful brother Henry, while at the same time concealing her shameful origins and making sure her sugar daddy stays sweet on her. Sugar seduces us because Faber lets us see both sides of her at once, the magnificent sexual schemer and the angry, damaged...
...trying to light a match. She sternly warned him that smoking was not allowed. He promised to stop, then began picking his teeth with the blackened matchstick. A few minutes later, she saw him bend over in his seat. "I thought, He's smoking," Moutardier recalls. "It got me mad. I was talking to him, saying, 'Excuse me,' but he just ignored me. I leaned in and said, 'What are you doing?'" As she pulled at him, he turned, giving her a glimpse of what he was hiding. What she saw terrified her. "He's got the shoe off, between...