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...valid means of resolving problems." The isolation of the latchkey kid is even more intense in the suburbs. "When Mom and Dad aren't home much and the extended family of the past is gone, kids are left to the mercies of a peer culture shaped by popular culture," says TIME senior writer Richard Lacayo. "Whiplashed from 'South Park' and 'Jerry Springer' to playing Mortal Kombat on Nintendo desensitizes ordinary kids to violence, but more susceptible kids are pushed toward a dangerous mental precipice...
...There is no single or simple explanation for the emergence of high school shootings as a social phenomenon. And yet they are occurring too often to be dismissed as aberrations. Factors ranging from gun laws to a violent popular culture to the breakdown of community values have combined to turn the playground massacre into a symbol of a deep cultural crisis in late-20th-century America. The First Lady a few years ago used the aphorism "It takes a village to raise a child" as the title for a book. But America has yet to make that particular African proverb...
Varsitybooks hung flyers on Harvard students' doorknobs this fall, despite the fact that Harvard is not among the 75 schools. The flyers advertised radical cut-backs from list prices for several popular textbooks...
Varsitybooks hung flyers on Harvard students' doorknobs this fall, despite the fact that Harvard is not among the 75 schools. The flyers advertised radical cutbacks from list prices for several popular textbooks...
When Dunn takes over as acting dean of the newRadcliffe Institute, she will be no stranger tothe Garden Street institution. Head of theSchlesinger since 1995, Dunn is popular aroundRadcliffe Yard...