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Because it focuses on prevention, the JAMA study "really moves the field forward," says child psychologist Anne Marie Albano, who directs the Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Columbia University Medical Center. Albano says that recent surveys showing rising rates of mental illness in college students have sounded the alarm about the need to intervene earlier to prevent the cascade of social, academic, economic and emotional woes that befall teens who slip into depression. "This study is telling us that if you get kids early in the cycle of depression when they have symptoms and are on the path...
When Denise Cosby saw reports of a shooting on the Harvard campus headlining the evening news one Monday last month, she had no idea the victim was her son.It was only when one of his friends phoned her from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center that she realized Justin Cosby was not in the next room.Cosby, who suffered a bullet wound to the abdomen after a shooting in Kirkland House’s J-entryway, was declared to be in stable condition around 7 p.m. He died just eight hours later, with his mother at his side...
Samuel P. Huntington was not afraid to launch his ideas onto the center of the intellectual stage, even when they sparked controversy. But friends and family said they will remember the bespectacled political scientist for his gentle, reserved nature and commitment to academia. The preeminent scholar of national security and civil-military relations died of congestive heart failure and complications related to diabetes on Martha’s Vineyard in December. He was 81. Huntington, who taught at Harvard for 58 years before retiring in 2007, was a gentle, yet quietly serious, presence in the government department, where he left...
...good old days of the last century, the years before the collapse of the economy and the World Trade Center towers, political discourse in the U.S. was, too often, rutted in issues that didn't affect the lives of most people. They were important moral and symbolic issues, to be sure. And they were difficult issues, although their subtleties were obscured by extremists, who tended to dominate the debate. Still, the people directly affected by the so-called social issues - abortion, gay marriage, racial preferences - pale in comparison with the tens of millions who have lost their jobs and fortunes...
...filing this case, Olson and Boies have moved the gay-marriage debate to the front and - critically - center of American political discourse. For all the successes gay-rights lawyers from the ACLU and other groups have had over the years, they never quite escaped the perception of many Americans that the cause was somehow a fringe concern of primary interest to advocates and opponents. As recently as last year, gay marriage was considered so extreme that no major candidate from either party in the presidential election had any qualms about opposing...