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Unlike some monuments that may come-and-go, the Samuel Eliot Morison sculpture features something different. Somehow, the image of Morison up on a rocky bluff implies what Orchard Professor of Landscape and Landscape Architecture John R. Stilgoe would call an "alongshore" image...
...members often call the Class of 1949 the "transition class." The first class to enter Harvard after the end of World War II, the Class still spent their college years in its shadow...
...loved every minute of it," he adds. "I don't want to call it a dream because I never dreamed I'd go to Harvard...
...happens to the vast majority of mentally ill people. Most Americans with mental illness simply aren't treated. Of the 2 million who suffer from schizophrenia, for instance, more than half receive substandard care. Only a third of those with serious depression receive any treatment. Reformers have tried to call attention to these problems for years--former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has been an advocate since the '60s--but the mentally ill have a powerful new ally...
...Call it the Gospel According to Al. Last week the Vice President added to his litany an idea borrowed from Republican theology, one that would have been considered heresy among Democrats a few years ago: giving federal money to religious groups that take a "faith-based" approach to curing social ills. Gore would expand the concept, already being used in carrying out welfare reform, to services such as drug treatment, homeless aid and the prevention of youth violence. "I believe that faith in itself is sometimes essential to spark a personal transformation," Gore declared at an Atlanta Salvation Army center...