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Proud came my chieftains-- the stalwart Gore, the tiny Reich, wealth-sated Rubin--and took their seats around the counsel table-- Heavy-laden with soft drinks and those butter cookies the White House kitchen does so well-- that we might implore the all-knowing seer Dick Morris to divine for us what sacrifice--of cattle, oxen or welfare babies-- Might best propitiate the god of polls and focus groups, lighthearted Hermes, ruler of nations...
...Kathleen Adams, Patrick Cole, Wendy Cole, Charlotte Faltermayer, Nadya Labi, Lina Lofaro, William McWhirter, Jeffery Rubin, Douglas Waller
...Charlotte Faltermayer, Janice M. Horowitz, Dawnica Jackson, Lina Lofaro, Tyler Maroney, Jodie Morse, Ainissa Ramirez and Jeffery C. Rubin...
Among teachers and counselors who deal with teens on a daily basis, such words as crisis and overwhelming crop up repeatedly. Rosemary Rubin, one of two consultants with the Los Angeles Unified School District suicide-prevention unit, says she receives emergency calls about eight-year-olds, and even four-year-olds, threatening to kill themselves. "People don't want to believe that children have problems where they could possibly think about ending their lives, yet this is what's going on," says Rubin, who worked with San Pedro High School in the wake of both sets of suicides. "The crises...
...crisis workers feared, there were indeed students who were, as Rubin describes it, "on the edge." A few were hospitalized for severe depression, and counselors are still following up with others they have identified as suicide risks. "For a child who isn't thinking clearly, they see this as a way of getting the recognition they don't have in life," says Rubin. "And for many kids death is not real--it's a fantasy concept--so you can say, 'Oh, I'll kill myself and get my picture in the paper.' They don't see that death is final...