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Unlike the other first-year residences,Greenough feels much like a "typical" collegedorm. Long narrow hallways, tiny boxy rooms andcommunal bathrooms are the norm here...
...Suppressing Sadness" [VIEWPOINT, May 31]. It is a shame that Joan of Arc in her benighted state could not have similarly been "cured." Unproductive individuals hostile to mainstream society, ranging from Socrates to Emerson, could have been chemically corrected for their own good to better adhere to the norm. If everyone conformed, schools could successfully be made up of "productive" students who effectively stick with traditional studies and perhaps make the honor roll. It seems that we must eliminate the deviant geniuses and artists in favor of the conforming sycophants whom some see as the fountainhead of societal progress...
...forget that the lad is isolated, unaware of his origin and his destiny--and aware that he is unaware. He places his palm against Kala's paw (hands are a major motif in the film) and knows that his mother is different; or, rather, she is the norm, and he the outsider. Africa is his metaphor: the lost continent is his identity. Always he asks, Who or what am I? Where do I belong...
...very much a place where you have to make your own happiness," says one third-year law student who asked not to be identified. Although she herself is happy at the school, the student says a similar sense of contentedness is "almost definitely not the norm" among her law school colleagues...
...looked at the health issues with an eye toward not only what we needed to do today, but also what we needed to do for the long-term," Durham says. "He created an environment in which it was the norm to look at things from a broader perspective...