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...recent months, however, the ideological consensus over public service has been shaken perhaps dismantled. By addressing structure only at the highest levels, the Maull/Lewis Report neglected to address the broader consequences its recommendations would have on undergraduates, program staff, and, most importantly, the communities currently, and ably, served. Accordingly, these recommendations (which, by the way, were written after consulting only two students) unleashed a flurry of controversy and student-administrative crossfire. To thoughtful, reasoned student opposition, the administration paid token attention; the faculty remained hope-lessly silent. Ultimately, the failure to engage initially and honestly with students challenged the validity...
...brain -- usually caused by a powerful blow to the head -- that can result in vertigo, disorientation and momentary unconsciousness, or even permanent memory loss, coma and death. Dr. Robert Cantu, a neurosurgeon at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts, explains that when the head is hit, "the brain is shaken in the cranium much like Jell-O in a bowl...
...bones. But it also contains relentless poverty, intermittent abuse, the constant threat of self-destruction. These people can never escape whatever desperate moment they are caught in, never know the luxury of foresight. It is hard watching fate enfold them. But it is also a bracing experience not easily shaken...
...future. He is a passionate, tormented idealist, still roiled by the Western liberal notions of social and political freedom that had swept the Russian intelligentsia a generation before. But the new, younger Russian intellectuals are not liberals; they are nihilists and anarchists, and Dostoyevsky is repelled and shaken. This ferment will result, two years later, in the towering "pamphlet-novel" variously called The Devils, The Possessed and (in a vigorous new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) Demons -- the demons being the indigestible Western ideas that were unsettling Russia...
Epps came to the defense of Richard A. Cole '95, who said he was racially harassed by a Harvard Square shop owner. When Cole, who is Mexican-American, walked into Epps's office after the incident, the dean did more than just listen to the shaken student. He marched him right over to the Cambridge Human Rights Commission to file a complaint...