After a school shooting, students may be reluctant to return to classes and resume their normal academic life, experts say.

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"Normal" academic institutions are expected to conduct their research first and draw their conclusions second.

ECONOMIST: European politics

When Mattson does consent to work within the normal confines of nonfiction, he operates like an academic with dreams of a mass audience, or, at least, the hope of receiving teaching evaluations that will commend him as an especially with-it prof.

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