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Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82, who opened the discussion, said she hoped the report would provide Faculty members with information that would serve as a springboard for further discussion on improving study abroad...
...situation has gotten national press attention—and provided campus activists with an unusual springboard to criticize the Harvard administration...
...tabloids were rife with speculation on Jackson’s eccentric behavior, using his oddities as a springboard for their own wild imaginings. In response, Jackson withdrew further from the world, retreating to his private Neverland ranch/park near Los Angeles. The release of 1991’s Dangerous proved to be the harbinger of Jackson’s impending career downturn. Sales were lukewarm by his standards, and his desire for attention evoked negative reactions. A nightmare-like sequence at the end of his video for the first single, “Black or White,” in which...
...these confessional times, it would have been easy for Solomon to limit himself to a personal memoir. But he uses his story as a springboard for a wide-ranging discussion about depression. Prozac is especially popular, he explains, not so much for its efficacy as for its safety and comparatively minimal side-effects. The most successful physical treatment, he says, is the "least clean and specific" of all: electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT. He criticizes the powerful Veterans Administration for spending less than 12% of its research budget on psychiatry, when mental disorders may be the biggest problem for American veterans...
...This teach-in was a kind of springboard-our entrance onto the Harvard stage," Bar Am says...