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...Friday. When a 12-year-old wears a thong, "it's not about rebellion against adults," says child therapist Ron Taffel, author of The Second Family: How Adolescent Power Is Challenging the American Family (St. Martin's Press; 2001). In Taffel's view, the adult establishment has become too weak and weary to inspire rebellion. Getting thongs or tattoos or body piercings, he argues, is actually a "statement to other kids that they are part of this very, very intense, powerful second family of peer group and pop culture that is shaping kids' wants, needs and feelings." This phenomenon...
...recounted the experience of her appointment as CEO of CNBC two years ago in the midst of a weak economy and advertising market, corporate scandals, and an economy still reeling from the September 11 terrorist attacks...
Although some have criticized the newly-drafted constitution of the European Union (E.U.) as too weak, it represents progress towards a stronger and more effective Europe, the vice president of the E.U.’s Constitutional Convention told an audience of about 60 at the Law School last night...
...when team’s overcompensate and don’t present a strong defense against the pass—a weak point already for Harvard—Northeastern exploits play action to burn secondaries deep down field for easy scores...
...that their success is guaranteed. Last weekend, Brown’s Nick Hartigan broke loose in the open a couple of times, bouncing off weak tackles attempted by an exhausted group of defenders...