Word: stein
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stein club, a 15-year-old tradition of beer testing funded by the Lowell House Committee, has been temporarily closed down because of complaints that the club permits underage drinking...
...kind of sucks," said Lowell resident Mark S. Cob '96. "Stein club was a way for sophomores, juniors, and seniors to socialise...
...jealous of the people who are leaving," says Elizabeth B. Stein '95. "I want to get out of here. I hate it. Crew is a very pretty sport, but it's not worth turning the campus into a police state...
...Mansion murders, not to mention the kosher enchilada? Los Angeles is a metropolis of 85 cities with no "center of gravity", as Peter Theroux writes in one of the witty, observant little essays that make up Translating LA (Norton; 271 pages; $21). Its user- unfriendly downtown center resembles Gertrude Stein's famous description of Oakland. (Where is the there?) Born as a city of immigrants, Tinseltown, the Rainbow City, Iowa-by-the-Sea -- the sobriquets are legion -- remains one: children in its public schools come from families that variously speak 93 languages. Some of them even know English...
...draw the line between a spontaneous, high-energy person who is feeling overwhelmed by the details of life and someone afflicted with a neurological disorder? Where is the boundary between personality and pathology? Even an expert in the field like the University of Chicago's Mark Stein admits, "We need to find more precise ways of diagnosing it than just saying you have these symptoms." Barkley also concedes the vagueness. The traits that constitute ADHD "are personality characteristics," he agrees. But it becomes pathology, he says, when the traits are so extreme that they interfere with people's lives...