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...antiterrorism cause. Getting rid of Saddam was a good idea. But replacing his secular dictatorship with a fundamentalist theocracy would not be so good. Iraq will probably have a civil war that will eclipse and consume any puppet democracy that the U.S. creates. Stay the course? That was our motto in Vietnam. Daniel T. Arcieri Blue Point...
...must not overlook that our professors, with their “publish or perish” motto, are prey to the same issues which beset us. Horror stories abound about the way in which academic work by the great minds who teach us sometimes gets rushed to print without proper proofreading. Some graduate students who work for professors are forced to drop everything and spend the three days prior to a printers’ deadline reading a professors’ text through; undergraduate faculty aides sometimes correct mistake-addled bibliographies only hours before a conference paper must be given. Something...
According to Nock, Jerome Motto, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, found surprising results in a 1976 study of patients who attempted suicide. The control group received no follow up after they were discharged, while the experimental group was sent postcards every six months that simply expressed interest in the person’s welfare. Those that received the follow-up cards were far less likely to commit suicide...
...enfranchise the chronically apathetic is the concerted effort to tap the ever-elusive, yet ever-important, youth vote. Today, the students of Winthrop House—in partnership with students at Penn State—join this effort as they encourage youth voters in a new campaign with the motto “I Decide...
...instance of what happens in Jakarta and Bangkok and La Paz. And the only people maintaining standards and facilities in this Jacobean society are, almost inevitably, members of the criminal underworld, who run things more efficiently than do their government counterparts. Even judges turn to mobsters for help. "Our motto," a criminal overlord tells Mehta, "is insaaniyat, humanity." When an ordinary, law-abiding citizen comes to Bombay from elsewhere, Mehta shows, he soon learns that just to buy a movie ticket or get the plumbing fixed involves shortcuts and contacts. Before long, he too survives only by breaking...