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...weary. His wife and only child, who is approaching college, miss him. He has monstrous legal bills. His unique bond with the President is under stress. His most important work is done...
Most troubling of all, what about when enough ambition becomes way too much? Grand dreams unmoored from morals are the stuff of tyrants--or at least of Enron. The 16-hour workday filled with high stress and at-the-desk meals is the stuff of burnout and heart attacks. Even among kids, too much ambition quickly starts to do real harm. In a just completed study, anthropologist Peter Demerath of Ohio State University surveyed 600 students at a high-achieving high school where most of the kids are triple-booked with advanced-placement courses, sports and after-school jobs. About...
...cardiovascular space feels cramped. There used to be windows by the treadmills and bikes that let people look into the gym, but now, most people are up against a wall. Overall, people’s comments have not been positive.” However, Maludzinski did stress that the QRAC has improved since she began working at the facility in 2003. “The equipment used to be enormous blue machines from the 70s that looked like torture chambers,” she said. “We are far from that today...
...away from the juvenile swashbuckling action of “Pirates of the Caribbean” (it was filmed in a break while finishing that trilogy), but old habits die hard, and “The Weather Man” is peppered with violence. At the peak of his stress, Spritz slaps Noreen’s new boyfriend across the face with his gloves in an impulsive parody of bygone gentlemanly honor. Though primarily comic, this moment reflects the film’s general atmosphere of nostalgia incarnated in Spritz’s father, Robert. Verbinski makes a quiet critique...
...hard to over-stress that the essential ingredients to the Lowell HoCo’s success have not been trusts or alumni, but hardworking folks and support from the Lowell House administration. A few HoCos may be funded by House trusts, but—great though it would be for Lowell—we are unfortunately not amongst them. Last year’s Bacchanalia cost HoCo, net of ticket sales, a touch over $1,000, which was covered by UC grants that also funded Lowell’s carnival, Oscar night, Stein clubs, gym equipment purchases, freshman welcome event...