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While Lowell House SASH adviser Kirsten D. Sword "gets nervous at wondering how much responsibility people want us to take," other SASH advisers say they are not trained as professional therapists and do not try to fill that role...
...double-edged sword. It can kind of make you happy to come back, or make you realize that you're ready to make your break," she added...
Thomas Professor of Government and of Sociology Theda Skocpol, who habitually teaches small classes and advises many theses, says contact with students can be a double-edged sword...
Transferring is a double-edged sword. Besides the annoying bureaucracy surrounding the process, social life setbacks can be daunting since moving into a new House requires playing a sort of catch-up game. For some, however, exiting an unhappy living situation may be worth the price. Since randomization rocked the Harvard housing scene, it seems as if transferring is everybody's new favorite extracurricular. And although Pforzheimer House Assistant to the Masters Sharon Holt claims a downward trend in transferring from that House, many current Quad residents have found their surroundings distasteful enough to desert...
...Europe and Asia prompt an orderly departure of foreign money for promising opportunities at home. But this would still reverse the wealth effect and stanch U.S. consumption. No board member dissented from the view expressed by Lipp that debt-fueled consumption and big current account deficits were "a sword of Damocles." Though that danger may not be immediate, Hormats noted, it is probably behind efforts by U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Deputy Secretary Lawrence Summers to push for Europe and Japan to do more for global economic growth: "I think they see this vulnerability coming down the road...