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...name a few of his honors: unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection, finalist for the Bob Cousy Award and the John R. Wooden Award—given to the best point guard and all-around player of the year, respectively—and 2010 Lou Henson All-American...
Ellie, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy, sought care this past fall when she began to feel anxious and depressed. While she was given an intake appointment within a week, she was shocked when her therapist told her she was bipolar after a 20-minute conversation...
...Naming generations is a tricky project. Jack Kerouac was successful in naming his Beat Generation, but few others have been able to give their own generation a lasting moniker. The Baby Boomers—our parents—were given their name before they had done much more than arrive. The Greatest Generation—our grandparents—only got that label decades after they had earned it. Some have tried to call our generation a “Lost Generation,” echoing Gertrude Stein, who coined the term in reference to the original Lost Generation...
Make no mistake, Obama no longer towers as the über-formidable candidate of 2008. Yet the drastic ups and downs of his first year in office and the likely losses his party will suffer in the November midterms have given a distorted view of his muscle for 2012. He is back on track to raise $1 billion, with all of it to be applied to the general election, rather than to any serious nomination contest. Obama will almost certainly opt out of the matching-funds system for the nomination period and public financing for the general election, raising record...
...full name, in its unabridged form, is Henrietta Zane Bratton Wruble. It’s long. It sounds pretentious, at times. It stretches across the entire length of my HUID. To speak it out loud is clumsy enough that I have taken to whipping out said ID so that inquisitors can see the absurdity for themselves. Ever since coming to Harvard, its entirety has been plastered on every class list and official e-mail, so I’ve long since given up on maintaining it as my Deepest Darkest Secret...