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...conducted anonymously, did not include a way to follow up with troubled students, especially those who indicated that they had considered or attempted suicide. Wong said that it was important to keep in mind that these results were presented in isolation. “Mental health is not an area by itself. I can’t see how it cannot be built into the current initiatives we have,” she said. Both Reeves and Wong noted that Cambridge may also have the unusual problem of over-supporting its students. Reeves said that students who graduate from...
...ancient temple. Each nation claimed that the other fired first. Cambodia also announced it had captured 10 Thai soldiers, though Thailand accounted for all its troops. Tensions have been high since July, when Cambodian troops detained three Thai protesters for crossing the border in order to enter the disputed area...
...nominated in that category by the National Book Foundation, the non-profit literary foundation that gives out the awards. The winner will be announced next month in New York City. Faust’s sixth book takes on how Americans managed and understood death during the Civil War, her area of scholarly expertise. Published early last year—just months after Faust assumed the Harvard presidency—the book garnered largely positive reviews and impressive sales for a historical work. In its first five months in print, Faust’s book sold close to 40,000 copies...
...hands should find troubling: many of them, quite simply, are racists.Rep. John Murtha, a sixteen-term Congressman from Pittsburgh, acknowledged this reality on Wednesday with a bluntness that a less secure incumbent could never have dared. “There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area,” he said. I am afraid that in small towns on the Jersey border, there is no question, either.The racism that defines these swing voters is not necessarily founded upon stereotype or prejudice. It’s not the kind that claims that black kids are good...
...Rooney-Mahoney debate is scheduled for Oct. 24, but the campaign did not return a phone call Wednesday to confirm if it was still on. Palm Beach County GOP chair Sid Dinerstein is happy he still has a seat to the event, he said. Since 2006, the area has seen four city and county commissioners imprisoned for corruption charges; the Foley scandal; a still unresolved Aug. 26 judicial election in which voting ballots briefly disappeared; and now the Mahoney affair. "The voters, they are waiting for a natural leader," Dinerstein said. Or at least one who can manage to stay...