Schools need to take seriously the issue of student stress, particularly high-powered schools where students are likely to sacrifice their own health for a college admissions letter.
Ultimately, schools need to foster a love of learning in students. If a school manages that, not much else really matters.
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“It’s not him,” said a Western diplomat in Kabul intimately involved in the discussions. “And we gave him a lot of money.”
“There were today reports that Hughes’s death was due to complications from a failed attempt to kill himself.”
I think this speaks for itself.
It never ends. I fear the day when incidents like this become the norm rather than the exception, but it seems inevitable. These types of attempts have increased in frequency, and it suddenly seems so easy to do something like this. I can’t help but think that one day one of these attempts will be successful.
The entire nation seems to be focused on Juan Williams. Never mind the two wars we’re fighting. Never mind the dire economic straits we find ourselves in. Never mind an election in less than two weeks. No, let’s spend an endless news cycle discussing de-funding NPR.
Williams expressed a personal opinion on Fox. As an NPR news analyst, that is unacceptable. NPR was wrong to let him occupy these two conflicting roles for so long, but no one should be surprised that they fired him now.
Unfortunately, the charged political atmosphere meant that this was a lose-lose situation for NPR. If they hadn’t fired Williams, they would have been attacked by the same people who are attacking them now for setting a double standard. The Republicans and the tea pots would have screamed about how the liberal media elite sets a double standard—one for any conservative who makes derogatory remarks and another for liberals who do the same. They’d say that a conservative would be hounded out of his job but the liberal media elite protects its own.
NPR can’t win. They’re caught in Act 1 of a nice bit of political theater along with the rest of the nation. Next week: Big Bird—friend or foe?
Quite frankly, Rick Sanchez was bad at his job. He was a bad reporter, an awful anchor, had no idea what he was talking about, and entirely deserved Jon Stewart’s criticism. His recent comments are proof of that. Sanchez was not fired because of a massive Jewish conspiracy inside CNN, he was fired because he was an idiot and bad at his job. Unfortunately, the idiocy part can’t be helped, but at least he doesn’t have to worry about being bad at his job anymore.
Go see it. Now. It’s ostensibly a movie about Facebook, but it’s really about the challenge of friendship versus fame and fortune in the digital age. Aaron Sorkin’s witty dialog makes it even better. There’s a message in the movie about success and another message about signing contracts: always get your lawyers, not the lawyers of the company you think is loyal to you, but your lawyers to review things before you sign them.
Go see it.
Yay for Mark Zuckerberg, but headlines like this are a bit misleading. Most of Zuckerberg’s wealth is tied up in Facebook stock which he can’t sell easily. Facebook’s current valuation is also inflated because of a few recent investments by venture firms that are willing to pay a premium just to have Facebook stock. If Zuckerberg sold his stock at IPO, it probably wouldn’t fetch the inflated price.
