Word: exceptionality
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...about anyone else’s activities, including the UC’s. We boast 41 intercollegiate athletic teams, whose membership comprises nearly one-quarter of the student body. Yet few attend football games. More student-run publications are produced here than in some Mountain Time Zone states. Yet, except for The Crimson, none are read. The UC must realize that to most students, it not really a representative institution, but a club that, like the multitudes of others on campus, will primarily display its own preferences and interests. At its best, the Council can facilitate the grassroots level...
There's really nothing funny about what happened to Rebekah Beddoe, except maybe for a little black comedy at the end. In 1999, a psychiatrist diagnosed her with postnatal depression, which she probably didn't have, and for the next three years multiple doctors treated her with drugs that she almost certainly didn't need. As episodes of deliberately cutting herself progressed to bouts of mental torment and suicide attempts, Beddoe's carers, concluding that her illness was worsening, kept upping her dosages and trying new medications. Nothing worked. Eventually, Beddoe acted on a different idea. Without telling anyone...
...sundry other medical, ethical and ideological questions that swirl around these drugs, it's worth acknowledging that depression in its most severe form is a crippling condition. Over time, sufferers of melancholic depression (formerly known as endogenous depression) lose the ability to feel joy, excitement, empathy - just about anything except a gnawing dread. They eat without appetite and their sleeping patterns are shot to bits. Imagine being alone at 3 a.m., having just awoken from a nightmare. That, depressed people say, is a hint of how they feel in every waking moment. It's horrible - so horrible that most sufferers...
...That unique jersey is for a unique position. It’s volleyball’s version of the designated hitter, except a libero is a defensive replacement. When Blotky entered the game, she took over a position in the rotation without costing Harvard coach Jennifer Weiss one of her limited substitutions...
...spokeswoman for the center, Kathleen Frith, declined to comment on Spielman’s assertions, except to say that “we completely disagree” and that the relevant supporting data could be found in the study...