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Studies in child psychology have repeatedly shown that paddling and other such corporal punishments cause more anger and embarrassment than guilt or remorse. It establishes a behavioral pattern based on fear and the primitive aversion to pain rather than a rational understanding of the child's actions and its consequences, Supporters claim that, for whatever reason, corporal punishment works in halting negative behavior. While this utilitarian perspective may have a certain puritan appeal, it hardly seems like reason enough to teach children we don't have to work out problems with other people, especially if they are weaker than...
Andorsky, who is a Crimson editor, says he believes the change in leadership is more of a cyclical pattern than a linear trend...
When the ground was broken almost a year ago on the renovations to Memorial Hall, we rejoiced that a new student center was to be included in the historic Ware and Van Brunt building. The beautiful extension on Kirkland Street, which kept the old hall's intricate brickwork pattern, and the new underground entrance facing the Science Center, whetted our appetites for something extraordinary. When Loker Commons opened its doors last term, we weren't disappointed...
...citizens live in poverty. No doubt many of those people too go wanting for food, medication and heat. More jolting is the report's liberal calculus. Presenting four-year-old information and focusing on a Shanghai institution--just one of China's hundreds of orphanages--it finds that "the pattern of cruelty, abuse and malign neglect...now constitutes one of the country's gravest human-rights problems...
Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato, whose Banking Committee is investigating Whitewater, said last week's revelations suggested a cover-up: "We have a difficult time believing that this was not a deliberate withholding," he said. "There is clearly a pattern of deception that is disturbing and troubling.'' Moreover, a counsel for the committee has suggested that the "disappearance" of these records raises the possibility of obstruction of justice...