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...question is whether it will be opened before it gets there. The collection of essays will most likely travel directly from shopping bag to airplane seat to coffee table to Harvard memorial bookshelf and a place of esteem next to Erich Segal's Class, last year's reunion volume. Alums should do themselves a favor by giving Class another read and leaving this 350th momento to collect dust...
Women's self-esteem gets wrapped up in body shape. "There's an equation: if I don't have a nice body, I'm not worth anything. This seems to be a pervasive attitude. Many charming, attractive, lovely young women come in thinking they're `gross,'" says McKenna...
...deservedly, losing any reputation it ever may have had for accommodation of diverse points of view. Everything from blockades of United Nations delegates to the hurling of water balloons at Cabinet members have occurred here in the 1980s. It is not "tawdry pandering" to acknowledge with small tokens of esteem the visits of high Administration officials in return for their time and contribution to the range and volume of intellectual debate on campus. Such gestures simply provide a less-than-perfect means of counteracting the very real hostility and aggression of a small and vocal minority of students and faculty...
...League students' high expectations often contribute to the disappointment they feel when they come to college, Catlin adds. "If their sources of self-esteem are narrowed, then you have conditions for suicide." Harvard has up to four suicides a year, according to Catlin. One student has taken his own life this year, while two committed suicide last year. Catlin says that persons who are considering suicide often give clues about their emotional state, as when "people start talking about dying, start giving away their possessions...
...miles a week, often jogging his five final commuter miles from Boston's North Station to his office near Harvard Square. On weekends he competes in 10-km road races and regularly finishes among the top three or four runners in his age group. "That feeds my self-esteem," says Bethell, who maintains a lean 5-ft. 11-in., 160-lb. silhouette. Even more satisfying, he feels that he is healthier today than...