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When I first heard, I instantly recalled her graceless fall into the pond at the Botanical Gardens, then the time she fell down a flight of stairs in middle school and lay on the marble floor in a sad crumple. Now, I couldn’t imagine that she wouldn’t, couldn’t, rise again so we could dry her soaked jeans in the public bathroom or so I could walk her to the nurse’s office for Band-Aids. How could we not laugh about it later; how was it that she wouldn?...
...know what you’re thinking. You want to run Primal Scream because you have something to prove. It’s hard to be at Harvard, where the enormous pond of excellence has relegated your erstwhile big fish persona into washed-out post-superstardom and overwhelming obscurity. And it’s not like your upcoming exam performance is going to rocket you to instant fame. So, you think, I know how to handle this. I’ll take off all my clothes, run around Harvard Yard, and scream. I’ll be a bona fide...
...include four more SSRIs that should not be prescribed to children because the risk of suicidal thoughts may outweigh the benefits. (Only Prozac was deemed O.K. for kids.) In the U.S. a similar warning is in place for the drug Paxil. Meanwhile, health officials on both sides of the pond advise that young patients should be weaned from these drugs only under medical supervision...
...star-struck freshman. Wagner says that coming from a graduating class of 60 in Virginia, people told her that the days of “being the big fish in a little pond” were over. But, she says, “the great thing about a bigger pond is that you can see all the ways in which people are wonderful.” Wagner says that the kid she sees sleeping in class, for example, could be “starting a neo-post-modernist art movement,” and “that...
...Wagner herself has proved to be one of the big fish in the Harvard pond. Despite coming from a small high school in Virginia Beach, Va., Wagner has been on the varsity Alpine skiing team since sophomore year. “There have been instances in races when I thought, ‘I might die now,’” she says, covering her face with her hands...