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...vicious cycle has been set in motion. Parents who live through their kids produce children who grow up feeling they have missed out on childhood, a time when play, pure and simple, with all its lively, unstructured freedom, should be paramount. "If a child is totally immersed in ice skating, she may become Katarina Witt, but what did she lose?" says Wetter. "I see lots of adults in treatment who say, 'I never had a childhood. I wanted to be a doctor, so I spent all my time at the library doing a biology project, but I never played soccer...
...Respond Positively to Students," April 9, 1996) is so disrespectful it borders on the scandalous. I will not even try to refute Ms. Russek's specious argumentation for changing the term "freshman" to "first-year," though her lack of rigor is alarming, I am much more shocked by her vicious personal attack on Dean Lewis...
...perhaps, if the FBI proves it can handle a standoff and negotiate a conclusion, the federal government will see the light. If the ATF is seen as both useless and vicious, maybe the U.S. will finally have a law-enforcement branch that deserves our trust...
...Palestinian and, in some cases, a blood relation of one of the bombers. These more recent events are percieved as "retaliation" against Palestinians; yet if the perpetrators are dead (they were, after all, suicide bombers) who is being punished? Their blood relations? This violence is also part of the vicious cycle of violence and hatred that must be stopped in the Middle East...
MASSIMO CALABRESI has seen more than his share of brutality. As Central Europe bureau chief, he has spent much of the past year reporting on the vicious Bosnian war. But little in that conflict prepared him for the acts of human kindness he uncovered last week in the Sarajevo neighborhood of Grbavica. For the past three years a group of Serbs has hidden and protected a Muslim family from "ethnic cleansing" at the hands of fellow Serbs. "Despite years of isolation and hardship, the family maintained extraordinary compassion and dignity," Calabresi says. "Meeting them proved to me that small pockets...