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...book’s vast scope makes the historical analysis largely superficial, but readers of any political leaning will enjoy the nuanced explanations of failed reforms...
...feel that the vast majority of crimes are committed by people not affiliated with the university who come here and either piggy-back into buildings or go into unlocked rooms, but a small portion of these crimes are committed by members of the Harvard community,” he added...
...self-separate more than anyone else on college campuses. Douglass Massey’s “American Apartheid” cites that one in four whites prefer to live in a neighborhood entirely absent of black people. White people have run miles and miles away from minorities, leaving vast suburban wastelands all over the country, wastelands where everything looks the same and white people do variations of all the same things. It’s left adults rotting on the couch in front of the TV and adolescents with nothing better to do in the middle of the night...
...intensively day and night from childhood if you are going to rise to the ranks of the greats, and that kind of singular focus constricts your reality and makes you more vulnerable to distortions of it. "A chess genius," wrote George Steiner, "is a human being who focuses vast, little understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. Almost inevitably, this focus produces pathological symptoms of nervous stress and unreality." Plausible, perhaps, but there are lots of folks who are monomaniacal in other "trivial" spheres and who come out psychically intact. Tiger Woods was raised from infancy...
...disasters tend to fall into three categories. About 10% to 15% remain calm and act quickly and efficiently. Another 15% or less completely freak out--weeping, screaming or otherwise hindering the evacuation. That kind of hysteria is usually isolated and quickly snuffed out by the crowd. The vast majority of people do very little. They are "stunned and bewildered," as British psychologist John Leach put it in a 2004 article published in Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine...