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...moment, the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative offers an information page in Spanish to help parents understand Harvard’s aid policies. In addition, several admissions officers—as well as student volunteers who participate in the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program—communicate in Spanish with parents of potential applicants, Fitzsimmons said...
Despite her parents’ desire to help in the admissions process, Maricruz Rodriguez ’12 said she found the procedure “frustrating” because her parents could not understand the application materials...
...whole thing is going to send a chill," says Dr. Drew Pinsky, a substance-abuse expert and television personality who treats many celebrities, "but it's a highly complicated and nuanced problem that many people just don't understand. You know, there's a young celebrity dying of addiction every day now. And they're all dying from pharmaceutical death. So where are they getting them? They're getting them from my peers...
...health, Pinsky says, most doctors who get into trouble with celebrity clients mean well but are in over their heads. "It's not as simple as it seems, and it needs to change. If you want to distill it down to one thing, it's doctors really don't understand addiction, and that's how they get themselves into trouble. And then they also don't understand their relationship with celebrity and their own personality figuring into that relationship...
...Like most fans, however, I'll never understand all the Lutz and Salchow lingo that the commentators banter about during the performances. Plus, the subjective scoring system that determines the winners and losers is frustrating. How do we know what's really going on? To those fans who have invested their time studying all the tricks and deciphering how the judges compile points, you have my eternal admiration. But when I watch sports, I like to avoid the urge to ram my head against a rink. (See the 10 worst figure skating costumes...