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...galaxy?s most complex life forms (NBA stars Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Muggsey Bogues, Larry Johnson and token white geek Shawn Bradley). If Jordan doesn?t renounce his infatuation with baseball and agree to play a basketball game against the aliens' Monstar team, civilization will be imperiled. Not to mention some very fat Nike contracts. There are the requisite inside jokes involving butt-kissing (Daffy plants a smooch on his own ducktail, to which the WB logo has been affixed) and Disney-dissing (when Daffy suggests that the good guys? squad should be called The Ducks, Bugs ripostes, "What kind...
...they speak of developing their talents to help other Native Americans, however, these students all mention the diversity of the larger community. With members hailing from some 50 tribes across the U.S. and Canada, from rural areas, cities and reservations, from large and small families and from public and private high schools, it becomes clear that no monolithic Native American community exists. Carpenter says this makes the definition of community "nebulous...
...could not talk about the specifics of my case; despite the fact I had just published an editorial describing the case in detail, they claimed to need my official permission. Of course, the deans had known of the meeting for nearly a week in advance and had failed to mention this requirement to any of the students involved. During this meeting, Mackay-Smith hinted to Colton and Braunstein that there was more to this case than I had revealed in my editorial, although she claimed that the University's policies on confidentiality did not allow her to explain the situation...
...contrast, several rigorous evaluations have shown Life Skills to reduce the rate of teen drug use. Designed to combat teen smoking, it is a series of role-playing and problem-solving exercises with not even a mention of marijuana until lesson No. 3. "The idea is to present drug resistance in a large context of social skills kids need to navigate the minefield of adolescence," says Gilbert Botvin, director of Cornell University's Institute for Prevention Research, who developed Life Skills based on behavioral data about teens...
...surprised that the article does not mention Professor Robert Coles '50 or his book, The Call of Service, which addresses the kinds of questions Ms. Frank is asking, particularly in the context of college students and Harvard specifically. While one may question the ability of student-run programs to effect broad social change, there is no question that the volunteer benefits, a fact which Professor Coles substantially documents. Certainly, he or she develops greater sensitivity to issues of poverty and powerlessness, an empathy people expected to be the future leaders of the world can never have too much...