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...Crimson Sports Department hope to ease the trauma of this transitional period by offering some advice in one of the most important parts of an freshman athlete's life: fashion...
...some of them strongly supported Krauthammer's position, about 90% of those who wrote criticized--to put it mildly--his arguments, particularly his linking of gay marriages to polygamy and incest. "I have yet to read a credible study showing a homosexual relationship causes the same level of psychological trauma that incest does," wrote Kar-yee Wu, 24, a Hong Kong native and second-year medical student at Tufts University in Boston. "Also, I don't remember the last time someone was killed or beaten because he or she was polygamous. I do know that these things happen to homosexuals...
Media hype is ahistorical. Intimate electronic magnification causes the present vividness and trauma to override memory and the rational sense of historical proportion. We have all lived with the media effect for a long time and have made our inner adjustments to it. The trouble is that the left brain reads and the right brain watches television. The TV-watching eye takes in the explosion in Atlanta and the fireball over the ocean and the crater in Oklahoma City, and relays the shocking images to the center of the brain, which by reflex extrapolates a world menaced by terrorists...
Before it was--and despite all the tear-gas-scented disruptions that signaled the trauma of transition--some of us got an education. If we were lucky, we had teachers--Monroe Engel, Justin Kaplan, Gail Porter and Peter Stansky in my case--who shaped our sensibilities forever. But the Vietnam war also exposed the fallibility of America's institutions, and to witness close-up the crack-up of Harvard, the alma mater of the American establishment that created the quagmire, was a harrowing education in itself...
...women is hardly modern, and neither is the writers'. For instance, Marsh has little tolerance for the mishaps of another female colleague, Gayle Van Camp (Catherine Kellner), who is so desperate to be one of the boys that she seems teleported from a pre--Cagney & Lacey universe. Her greatest trauma in life, we learn, is that she failed the physical-strength test that would have made her a Marine...