Word: sane
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...second major item in the letter regards the administration's sane immunity policy about treatment at the University Health Services (UHS). Fear of punishment would only serve to worsen the medical situations of students who drink excessively. We are glad that the administration holds students' health above their actions. But we are not so sure that this policy conforms to the reality of medical treatment at UHS. Although students' records are supposed to be kept confidential, sometimes they are not. And though friends who accompany a drunken student to UHS should be lauded (especially under this policy), they are sometimes...
Fourteen years ago, Landon formed a support group in Hollywood called LADIES--Life After Divorce Is Eventually Sane--which has helped the exes of Gene Hackman, Leonard Nimoy and Jerry Lewis, among others, survive a breakup. "The public thinks that money makes it different for us," says Landon, "but I've seen firsthand first wives of Oscar winners who moved from mansions to little apartments"--or even, for a while, to their cars...
...originally planned to release three films in 1996 and five in 1997. But don't go running to the multiplex: DreamWorks has put only one film in production. "It's a very, very crowded marketplace, where films are going to be pushed out of theaters," Geffen says. "It's sane to make fewer films...
...does conceal monsters. Each rental truck is an apocalypse idling at the curb. Each 747 takes on some unsettling metaphysic of Jonah-eating whale, or Moby Dick. Paranoia renders nature and its objects darkly volitional, satanic. The intent of terrorism, we know, is to break down the boundaries and sane categories of the mind and to make everyone start thinking like a psychotic...
...wouldn't faze an Italian either. But for an American, especially one from New Jersey and Harvard, living in Leon has been like living on another planet. It has forced me to evaluate the way Americans do things with a more critical eye--and sometimes Spain seems the more sane country. For instance, why are Americans obsessed with getting drunk--something that is considered unpleasant and unhip in Spain? Why are there so many restrictive laws and so many lawsuits in America? And why are Americans such slobs, while Spaniards make their beds and clean their plates every...