Word: saneness
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...must keep teaching—it is the one thing keeping him relatively sane...
...have been impressed with his sensitivity to the particular needs of Harvard students and to both the upside and downside of the relentless pursuit of excellence which characterizes the current student body. I think he has been an effective advocate for trying to keep student life relatively sane: sleep more, take time off, try to focus on one or just a few extracurriculars, in short, don’t go crazy. I am just a bit leery of the tone currently emanating from University Hall, which seems to be pushing for ever greater academic rigor while letting the emotional chips...
...have quite a gentlemanly concurrence,” he says. “This is what I would call ‘sane competition...
...sane person, after all, is opposed to peace as such. The question is, Peace at what risk? Peace on whose terms? Peace for how long? Looked at this way, war is not only sometimes a moral option--as theologians have long argued. Sometimes it's the only moral option we have. In some ways, this war is a textbook example of that. First off, we are not initiating a war. We are not the aggressor. We are still in a long process of defense. It's hard to remember now, but this...
...controversies have already erupted over what to put in DSM V. For instance, the A.P.A. is considering adding "relational disorders"--severe problems between spouses or siblings--to the fifth edition. Relational-disorder sufferers are completely sane except when they are around, say, their spouse. Skeptics contend that marital spats shouldn't be considered mental illnesses. A group of Stanford researchers wants to put "compulsive shopping disorder" into DSM V, but First doesn't seem to like the idea. While a number of studies have shown that pathological gambling exists and can be measured, he says, compulsive shopping "has received virtually...