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...unceasing psychological quest for self-affirming achievement, not the need to relax after a hard day of classes, is what makes so many Harvard students immerse themselves in extracurriculars. As long as Harvard remains a center of excellence—meaning, in the true sense of the word, a place where almost everyone seeks a field in which to excel—there will be no way to change this state of affairs. In fact, such change may not even be desirable: extracurriculars at Harvard create valuable end products precisely because of the ambition and drive of the students...
...options of spending more time in the libraries or totally immersing themselves in extracurriculars. There is nothing shameful about spending an evening—or any number of them—in front of the television, doing nothing productive at all. Unfortunately, until the student body learns how to relax, mental health problems here will remain serious. And as long as Harvard retains its (entirely understandable) desire to admit only the brightest and most highly motivated applicants, it is hard to see how any substantial progress can be made to improve undergraduate mental health. Which is, in many ways...
...work being on that camera,” Ingber said. “I could never completely relax. You always knew there were cameras there...
What set off Castro's fury? Those close to his inner circle say he feels insulted by the U.S.--and unusually nervous. In hopes that the U.S. would relax its 41-year-old economic embargo, Castro, 76, had begun to soften his anti-Yanqui vitriol. Last year he even allowed Jimmy Carter to visit and speak out for democratic change. But the Bush Administration has delayed Congress' anti-embargo legislation indefinitely. At the same time, a bona fide dissident movement has been growing on the island. "These [dissidents] are just employees of Bush's efforts to maintain his criminal economic...
...protection, has announced that it is negotiating with them and anticipates placing "a significant order in the near future." Other airlines are expected to follow suit as their pilots' unions--which complain that regional-jet pilots earn about one-fourth as much as large-jet pilots--reluctantly agree to relax the ceiling on the number of regional jets the airlines can use. That's just the kind of small thinking the regional-jet rivals need to hear. --With reporting by Sol Biderman/Sao Paulo, Robert Brehl and Steven Frank/Toronto and Linda Gyulai/Montreal