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...improve the system would take an enormous overhaul of business as usual at FAS. Because resident tutors do have a tenuous connection to the academic advising system that is largely run out of individual departments, changing the role of the tutor would necessarily involve a huge cross-section of individuals. But if the College is serious about finding more room in the House and about improving the advising system, the resident tutor system is a great place to start...
...psychiatric infrastructure is already being overwhelmed by the number of drug addicts, particularly meth abusers, who are crashing and seeking help. But in most of the region, counseling facilities are scarce and recovery from drug addiction is still viewed as a matter of willpower and discipline rather than a tenuous and slow spiritual and psychological rebuilding process. When it comes to methamphetamine addiction, where the brain goes through physiological changes that leave the abstinent addict clinically depressed because of depleted serotonin levels, recovery programs and rehab centers become a crucial way station between addiction and sobriety. But most...
...analysis employed in Chinese Literature 130: "Screening Modern China" which is cross-listed for Foreign Cultures credit, bears little to no resemblance to the historical methods employed in Foreign Cultures 74: "Cultures of Southern Europe." Other core areas show similar discrepancies. Indeed, the common thread linking Core courses is tenuous at best, and it appears that the decisions to group courses in any particular Core area are largely arbitrary...
...else's life? Rebecca Walker's foray into the genre, Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (Riverhead Books; 320 pages; $23.95), is plenty gapeworthy. Her book teems with childhood wreckage: premature sex, reckless drug experimentation, the end of her parents' interracial marriage, and her own consistently tenuous relationships born of desperation. Interwoven are heartrending but barbed recollections of absent, distracted parents--a self-absorbed mother, writer Alice Walker, who hires someone to take her daughter clothes shopping because she is "too busy to do it; too tired"; and a "checked out, sagging" father, civil rights attorney...
...would have been difficult for even the most agile politician to wage a war in such unfamiliar territory, especially on so many fronts: waging an uphill battle with the legal system, closing the ranks of a Democratic Party whose support for him had always been tenuous and quelling the perception that George W. Bush had won the election--one thing Gore's advisers blame on the television networks' erroneous declaration of Bush's win on election night. Just as difficult, Gore strategist Carter Eskew says, were "the odds of fighting a system that has a perhaps understandable desire for finality...