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Barreira said that a statistic might not fully capture the status of mental health at Harvard...
...supposed to be simple. Two years ago, as Cantabrigians headed to the polls on Election Day, observers predicted an easy victory for all nine City Council incumbents.That’s just the way things work in Cambridge: barring any radical developments, voters tend to stick with the political status quo. But by the end of the night, all bets were off. After the first-place votes had been tallied, mouths hung agape in the Cambridge Senior Center, where the city’s political classes gather every two years for the ballot count. Sitting in eighth place?...
...perhaps greatest significance was the existence of the letter at all, after four years of eschewing the sort of broadly defined presidential status reports that had once been a time-honored tradition at Harvard before Summers’ time. Having identified outreach and collegiality as key themes of his presidency in the new school year, the letter represented Summers’ first large-scale effort toward that end. His spokesman, John Longbrake, said the letter was “an invitation for further dialogue” with the Harvard community...
...Secondly, Republicans are hobbled as they head into 2006. "The status quo nationally is bad for Republicans-they need to break the psychology that '06 is going to be a very bad year," said political analyst Stuart Rothenberg. "They needed some good news, and they didn't get it." The results fueled Democratic hopes for a takeover of one or both houses of Congress, although the small number of races in play makes Democratic strategists doubt that is feasible. The off-year governors' races in Virginia and New Jersey tend to be overstated as omens for the following midterm elections...
...phone bill paid, ambition is often a luxury. For the rich, it's often unnecessary. It's members of the upper middle class, reasonably safe economically but not so safe that a bad break couldn't spell catastrophe, who are most driven to improve their lot. "It's called status anxiety," says anthropologist Lowe, "and whether you're born to be concerned about it or not, you do develop...