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...mystifying spate of suicides has left Gnosall residents baffled and outsiders scrambling to assign blame. Some wonder whether residents are receiving appropriate psychological care. "Mental health services remain the Cinderella of the NHS," said Phil Waterson, chief executive of the local mental health charity Mind, referring to Britain's often reviled National Health Service. While Waterson says local mental health services are good, residents may be wary of seeking care, fearing their treatment might become a source of gossip. "I think there is a big reserve about coming forward and acknowledging you have mental health difficulties," says Dr. Abid Khan...
...tossed obscenities at prosecutors and court clerks during hearings, refused to use a computer and insisted that all court papers (some 250,000 pages) be translated in Serbian Cyrillic (Serbs use both scripts). Like Milosevic, Seselj insisted on being his own defense lawyer, and when the court attempted to assign him an attorney, he went to a 28-day-long hunger strike, until all his demands were granted...
Under the controlled-choice plan, parents write down their top choices among the district’s 12 primary schools. Rather than assign students to schools by neighborhood, the district balances parent preferences with socioeconomic characteristics to determine which school each child will attend...
...perpetuating lies about the war in Iraq, the message of Islam, the treatment of Muslim women, and—my personal favorite—the importance of global warming. With just one invented hyphenation, the title “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” alone manages to assign 1.4 billion people radical political ideology by virtue of their religion...
...Bush adviser who hasn’t worked for Bush for two years. Not typically the stuff of front-page news. Malcom A. Glenn ’09, who was The Crimson’s summer editor, said he didn’t remember how he came to assign the story, although he pointed out that Mankiw “is a big figure on campus,” so recent criticism over years-old actions might be newsworthy. Still, a conservative reader might have reason to think The Crimson has a political ax to grind. Mankiw isn?...