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...what should we do about our food cravings? It may help to shift them in healthier directions: to chocolate sorbet from chocolate ice cream, for example. And to the extent that stress does drive our cravings, it can't hurt to practice some techniques to neutralize stress, like progressive relaxation or simple breathing exercises. Depriving yourself often backfires. A better strategy might be to indulge moderately and occasionally, perhaps as a way of rewarding good behavior...
...then moved to Boston, married former Phillips Exeter Academy classmate Eric Wetlaufer, and became a reporter for the Associated Press, an opportunity she calls “eye-opening.” “I had my first management experience when I was made manager of the overnight shift,” she says. “I was 25 years old and was suddenly made the supervisor of a unionized shop of reporters from midnight to 8 a.m. And, I will tell you, that I was completely, utterly unequipped to do that.”She began covering...
...days when no one dared accuse, say, a priest of wrongdoing. "The more these scandals arise, the more informed the public," he says. "Nobody in Ireland would ever suggest anymore that sexual abuse doesn't happen, or that we shouldn't talk about it. That's the big shift." Just four hours after Friday's demonstrations, one extent of that shift became clear, when the Supreme Court ordered that Mr. A be rearrested to serve the rest of his term - on the grounds, which were just as obvious when it had ordered his release, that the facts of his case...
...sign of the times, the alleviation of these rules still elicited the attention of the Student Council, house masters, and deans.‘WAR’ FOR FREEDOMFor the Class of 1956, most members had come to accept parietals as a way of life, marking a shift from the post-World War II period. War veterans who returned to Harvard as undergraduates, hardened from years of fighting, were much older and less likely to accept the parietal rules, according to Morton Keller, co-author of “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University...
...pleasant surprise for Cline is the attitude shift accompanying the late-night Lamont...