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...sometimes arcane and petty, but few questions seem as elemental to psychology as whether we can accept interior torment or analyze our way out of it. Hayes was received at last year's Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies convention in Washington with reverence-and revulsion. It wasn't uncommon to see therapists gazing at him between presentations as though he were Yoda. (Hayes is given to numinous proclamations: "I see this acceptance conception, this mindfulness conception, as having the power to change the world.") But skeptics dog him everywhere. "He certainly has a following and even an entourage," says...
...think our masters were definitely more receptive to our proposal considering that Benet is gay,” says Azzurra S. Cox ’06, one of Magnuson’s roommates.Restrictions on living arrangements mostly exist on paper alone. Furthermore, unofficial mixed-sex rooms are not uncommon. Several students declined to be interviewed for this article, fearing their unapproved arrangements would be compromised.Female rooms that share fire doors with male ones are allowed to open the doors with House permission, creating coed suites in all but name.LOCKED UPCoed rooming groups are only allowed to live in rooms that...
DIED. WENDY WASSERSTEIN, 55, witty, bittersweet playwright; of lymphoma; in New York City. As one of five siblings in a brainy, high-achieving family, she looked at pop culture and asked, "Where are the girls?" In plays like Uncommon Women and Others and the Pulitzer-prizewinning The Heidi Chronicles, she provided the answer with textured portraits of smart, sometimes self-doubting feminists struggling in the wake of the 1960s with competing urges for independence and intimacy. It was familiar ground for the Tony winner who, resisting pleas from her parents, remained steadfastly single. She gave birth at 48 and chronicled...
James T. Kloppenberg, the chair of the history department's graduate admissions committee*, said Morris’ experience is not uncommon...
...does the hotel seem in comparison with the rest of the country that locals are booking weekend stays. "We are already getting walk-in guests who are living in Kabul and feel like a getaway," says sales director Vishal Sood. What they find within the Serena's walls are uncommon luxuries by local standards. The 177 rooms come with modern furnishings, marble bathrooms, satellite TV and Internet connections on demand. Guest amenities include a business center, a health club, a swimming pool and a beauty salon. There's an international buffet restaurant, the Café Zarnegar, and, incongruously, an Asian...