In reviewing over 65 years' worth of the Quarterly's alum notes, Balfour couldn't spot a single item about a graduate wrestling with similar circumstances. In a world full of achievers, I alone had fallen short. Balfour urges alumni magazines to be less relentlessly cheery and more realistic in their coverage of graduates' lives. I know that some people feel alumni magazines are no place to air personal problems. We did after all spend four intimate years with one another.
Strangers share problems on the Internet.
Lawyers are pushing would-be clients into action because they can negotiate lucrative contingency fees. These ambulance chasers are a shame to the profession. Law professor Michael Milde, speaking to Maclean's. Milde was commenting on how several attorneys have been alarmingly quick in contacting relatives of the victims of the Swissair crash and suggesting lawsuits.