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These fund manager payouts also send exactly the wrong signal to students who are deciding upon careers—and mark a dramatic symptom of unhealthy changes in American higher education since we went to college. When we entered Harvard in the fall of 1965, tuition was under $1800 annually, and room and board charges were only about $1000. Since then, adjusting for inflation, tuition has increased by 2.4 times, and room and board charges have roughly doubled. We don’t believe today’s students are getting an education twice as good. Despite recently increased financial...
...returned. All being well, he'll start driving and a hospitality course in the New Year, and it won't be long before he's playing sport as exuberantly as he was until, at 15, he noticed a lump on his right arm that turned out to be a symptom of Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system. Treatment cured him and he was briefly healthy again, but early last year he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all), a cancer of the blood and bone marrow that kills more than half of its adolescent and young adult...
...first, some clarification. Perfectionism can take many different forms, stemming from different aspects of a person’s personality. Perfectionism in its most extreme form is a manifestation of psychological disorder or neurosis—a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), perhaps. People who have this type of perfectionism could take up to 20 minutes to write a check or fill out a simple form because of the compulsive need to check, double-check, triple-check, quadruple-check their work and make sure that it is absolutely mistake-free. Neurotic perfectionists are unable to derive any sense...
...immediate cause of the disastrous shortage—reportedly the safety failures at an English plant of the Chiron Corporation—are just a symptom of a larger problem that has been allowed to fester for years. Over the last decade, the number of suppliers of the flu vaccine in the U.S. has dwindled to two. Yet outrageous as this dangerous trend is, long term preventative solutions should not be the present focus; there is no use crying over spoiled milk, or, more appropriately, spoiled vaccine...
...entity is borne to us through the vector of language. If we were concentrating, would we really choose to refer to the totality of mass communication as if it were guided by a single will? Perhaps current usage of “the media” (sing.) is a symptom of the trend towards nation-wide uniformity spearheaded by Michael Powell’s rampant FCC deregulation, which has stunted local programming and brought even the likes of Ted Turner to public protest...