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...largest class.3.FM: Do you feel that Harvard students are more in need of happiness instruction than students at other universities?TBS: No. There was research that came out recently, a survey of college students nationwide, which showed that around the country about 45 percent of college students had experienced depression over the last year. And this is not Harvard data, this is U.S. college data...and the thing about happiness is that happiness and happiness levels are rarely a function of external circumstances. So whether you are in one college or another, whether you are enjoying the weather of California...
...concentrating in Human Evolutionary Biology, and I need to do you for thesis research. It’s a requirement. 4.) I lost my swipe card in Lamont, but can I still check you out? 5.) You need me in your sample size to prove with 95 percent confidence that you’re as good as all the Delphic guys say you are. 6.) If you thought your Math 21 pset was hard, wait until you get your hands on what’s in my pants right now. 7.) I know we’ve never...
Even if wearing the headscarf expressed political opposition to secularism, continuing to ban it may be the riskier move for the secular republic. Powerful interest groups, as well as the general public—60 percent, according to one opinion poll—oppose the headscarf ban, and over 400 members of Turkey’s 550-member parliament voted for its repeal. Maintaining the ban despite such opposition would only foster further resentment against the government and its secular policies. The past generation has witnessed the ferocious backlash that can result against a blanket secularism imposed tactlessly, most notably...
...According to recent polls, 77 percent of French people believe Kerviel is a “victim” of the system. Bruno Jeanbart, a French pollster, told Bloomberg, “French opinion perceives [Kerviel] as a man in the street, overtaken by the system.” That was just the tip of the iceberg. The popular French daily Le Monde addressed Kerviel as a “hero of our time” on February 2nd, and that same day, Le Figaro revealed that only 13 percent of people believed the trader was responsible for the scandal...
...Even more crucially, despite the election of market-friendly President Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s relationship with financial markets is a troubled one–hence Kerviel’s heroic status. In 2006, a University of Maryland poll revealed that only 36 percent of French people believed that free-market capitalism was the best system of economic organization, compared to 74 percent in China. No wonder being called “Che Guevara” is a compliment in the Gallic press...