Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bush and campaign manager Robert Teeter worked out their New Hampshire game plan after the President returned from his hapless trip to Japan. Their strategy: take some blame for the economy, stress Bush's longtime ties to the state and, except for some well-placed reminders about the Desert Storm triumph, avoid foreign policy. Masking his patrician demeanor beneath a folksy veneer, Bush began dropping his final g's and r's with a vengeance, substituting "fixin' ta" for "going to" and quoting the lyrics of country- music songs...
...biology has a funny way of confounding expectations. Rather than disappear, the evidence for innate sexual differences only began to mount. In medicine, researchers documented that heart disease strikes men at a younger age than it does women and that women have a more moderate physiological response to stress. Researchers found subtle neurological differences between the sexes both in the brain's structure and in its functioning. In addition, another generation of parents discovered that, despite their best efforts to give baseballs to their daughters and sewing kits to their sons, girls still flocked to dollhouses while boys clambered into...
...subtle operative. Her weapons are purloined letters, ambiguously dropped phrases, plausibly planted evidence of misconduct. And Claire, though she lives by all the best values and tries hard to be supermom and superwife, has her vulnerabilities. She doesn't always have the energy to be sexy. Even minor stress brings on incapacitating asthma attacks...
...Less stress is also a plus. It's a truism that sitting in a large room with 570 other stressed-out students is inherently more stressful than being in a library or your own room. Besides, then you don't have to put up with that dork in the row in front of you who keeps sniffling every five seconds, or the premed behind you incessantly clicking her 20-color premed...
...most appealing aspect of self-scheduling, however, is not the convenience or fairness or lack of stress, but the fact that it would run on an honor system. The University would have to trust students not to cheat. There is something very Harvardian about an honor code, something many high schools have but that we conspicuously lack. An honor code reflects the belief that students have integrity, that they are as serious about themselves as Harvard is about itself...