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...child psychologists are looking to save awkward youngsters from the anguish of being disliked. Educators are being encouraged to be aware of students who appear to be having a rough time getting along with their peers. These students are then sent off to be tested for a condition called "dyssemia." Dyssemia describes an inability to interpret and use non-verbal skills. As a child ages, this inability manifests itself in all sorts of socially clumsy behaviors--talking too loudly or softly, standing too close to people, touching them inappropriately, laughing or crying at inappropriate times...
...Paul boy from the East Side, the rough side, who got scholarshipped to Harvard, came back to Minnesota to practice law and landed on the Supreme Court at 61, an age when a man thinks about cutting back. He was a conservative who defended civil liberties and championed the poor and oppressed and authored Roe v. Wade, which made abortion legal, for which he received reams of hate mail, much of which he read. He was a man possessed of integrity and kindness. Every day after lunch, JUSTICE HARRY BLACKMUN took a walk to clear his head. He went...
Visiting four of the main locales--there are many more--requires several days. If distances seem long to young ones, families can read the books aloud en route and marvel at the cheerful fortitude of the Ingalls girls, who uncomplainingly journeyed over rough ground in covered wagons with hard seats and no air-conditioning...
...move to ban the Blue Laws barely squeaked through committee last week, and faces rough going in the House of Representatives. But the Cambridge License Commission should follow suit in lifting the ban, especially since it will ultimately be up to them whether the restriction will be lifted here...
...momentum that Harvard has to build off from last weekend should prove to be to the Crimson's advantage. RPI, always a dangerous force in the ECAC, had a rough weekend on the road...