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Asked about our grade inflation difficulties, Inouye told the Tufts Daily that “It’s just another symptom of their culture of arrogance—image over substance—and it’s finally catching up with them… Everybody in the business knows just how little Harvard students work. They’re essentially a lazy bunch. A lot of them aren’t even that smart...
...depression or something called "generalized anxiety disorder," the doctor would probably prescribe a so-called selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor such as Paxil. Such inhibitors take up to six weeks to begin working. But by putting your brain chemistry back into balance, they can get rid of the outward symptom--the anxiety...
Counselors around the world run courses to help people cope with the fear of flying?which affects some 20-25% of passengers. "A classic symptom of a phobia is avoidance," says Peter Hughes, a British Airways pilot with 34 years' experience who runs programs for flying phobics in Britain. "People are simply staying on the ground. They don't feel ready to address their fears." In Asia that kind of avoidance is particularly strong. "It's the whole psychology of loss of face," says Hughes, "never admitting to having a fear, never mentioning it." This may be one reason...
...have it turn out that the person was never married, and has not lost anyone. My fellow trainees and I are exhausted, numb, bewildered. We are doing too much. We are not doing enough. I have a speech that I give - It?s okay to feel this way (insert symptom X: Sleepless, anxious, jumpy, won?t ride the subway, wants to move to Canada, convinced there will be a nuclear bomb, guilty about having seen a movie, experiencing ceaseless diarrhea). You are having a normal reaction to an abnormal event...
...freedoms of an open society. Because antisemitism was directed against the Jews, it didnt overly concern most other people. Some even thought that letting off steam against the Jews might alleviate frustration, or organize protest, or serve some other positive aim. But blaming the Jews was only a symptom of the refusal to adapt to enlightenment and emancipation. The relative ease and success in attacking the Jews turned antisemitism into the most popular ideology of modern Europe...