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...same time, hints that the drugs could make anyone - not just depressed people - feel better raised tantalizing (and troubling) questions about the future of mood-bending drugs. If Prozac gives you an up even when you're not down, why wouldn't you want to take it? Dr. Peter Kramer of Brown University asked that question in his best-selling 1993 book, Listening to Prozac. A drug that makes patients feel "better than well," he suggested, might give rise to a new era of "cosmetic psychopharmacology," in which reshaping your personality would be as easy as highlighting your hair...
...very convoluted game of poker that goes on—rarely do any of the elected councilors want to show their hand publicly," Winters said. "Honestly, it's just a little extra cash and a little bit of honor over their colleagues...
...argument is basically "If I'm unique, I'm incomparable. And if I'm incomparable, I'm not accountable, because no one can judge me." Colleges have a vested interest in being in a position where no one can judge them, because then they can do whatever they want...
...refer in your essay to a "veil of secrecy that has shrouded higher education" for a long time. What information don't colleges want people to have? There's the information that exists that they don't want you to know about, and then there's the information that doesn't exist that they don't want to exist. In the latter category, no one knows how much students learn at a given college or university. No one knows. The entire process for assessing learning is completely idiosyncratic and course based. Now in some cases there's good reason...
...enormous Democratic classes of 2006 and 2008 will be up for re-election in 2012 and 2014. "If 2010 is a bad year, they're going to look at that," Rothenberg says, "and they're going to go, 'This is not the image of the Democratic Party I want to run on,' which could help move the party to the center." See Game Change: Why Harry Reid Said What He Said...