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Last Monday, members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) came to Boston to hold hearings on an important subject: whether broadband providers like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast should be allowed to manage Internet traffic for efficiency’s sake. It’s a useful question, and one...
If “Speak Out: Mental Health at Harvard” was a success, it was not because of the awareness it created. As an editorial in The Crimson pointed out, students tend to be aware of their own mental states. In 2006, 56 percent of Harvard students reported...
Thurman, who is the father of actress Uma Thurman, noted that guilt is a “useful emotion” as a tool of mental self-discipline and prevents people from harming each other.
There's something egglike about the concept of experience as a qualification for the highest office. At first blush, the idea appears to be something you can get your hands around. Presidential experience means a familiarity with the levers and dials of government, knowing how to cajole the Congress, understanding...
Was it Franklin Roosevelt's experience as governor of New York that gave him the power to inspire in some of the nation's darkest hours? Or was that gift a distillate of his dauntless battle with polio? To a keen student of human nature, all of life offers lessons...