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Going away to college isn't the same these days. Once upon an All-American time, Mom and Dad unloaded the station wagon as their starry-eyed scholar surveyed the campus with a heart full of hope and a mind on fire with plans. The mood was wistful and optimistic; the future looked bright despite the tearful farewells. But a shadow has fallen among the ivory towers. A growing number of students arrive on campus suffering from depression and other emotional disorders--some diagnosed, some hidden. So that traditional moment of new beginnings is haunted by deep anxiety and gloom...
...President Alberto Fujimori enervated Peru's antiterrorism apparatus - turning his intelligence police instead on political opponents. As a result, says Rospigliosi, "we have had trouble carrying out antiterrorism actions for lack of resources." That has simply reopened the Path, a group Peruvian war-history professor Alberto Bolivar, an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, calls "an adaptable virus." Peru can only hope that it doesn't become the cancer it was in the 1980s - when Guzmán, a megalomaniacal philosopher, led a movement that was, as he put it, "inducing genocide" against anyone who resisted...
According to Slater, Harvard’s standing among blacks suffered a further setback after former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, a prominent scholar in what was then called the Department of Afro-American Studies, left Harvard for Princeton in 2002 following a spat with University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...midst of planning for a funeral and memorial service, family and colleagues of renowned Civil War professor William E. Gienapp remembered him yesterday as a gifted scholar, devoted teacher and avid...
William H. Moore, a professor of history at the University of Wyoming, where Gienapp taught before coming to Harvard in 1989, said Gienapp was an exemplary scholar...