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College senior Dan Ferman admits he’s scared. Nevertheless, he embraces the challenges ahead.—Many say that your college years are the best years of your life. Well, they’re right. What these same...
View ArticleThe Perils of Praise
View image | gettyimages.comWhat happens when people who are used to getting praised stop getting it? Andrew Miller explains.______The Good Student was a teacher’s favourite in school, consistently...
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A diagnosis can change or end everything you thought you knew about your world. CW Nahumck is struggling with that today. It had been two and a half weeks since the last time we visited the doctor....
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View ArticleWhy Black Women Also Fear Black Men
Though the fear of black men by white people is based on racist stereotypes, black women’s fear is rooted in a lifetime of experience.Black masculinity is a site of contradiction: a stigmatized and...
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