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Davidson, in no way as inured to the cruelties of big-time athletics as Warner, becomes the latest sad chapter in bobsled's legacy of oustings. In 1976 Swiss driver Erich Scharer ejected his brother three days before the Olympics; he won two medals. Just this season the woman who took Racine's mantle as top gun and gold-medal favorite, Germany's Susi-Lisa Erdmann, had four different partners...
...with general notes on the ideas and story lines of each book. Notes on all these sources were then arranged chronologically and kept in dozens of folders in 25 banker's boxes. Immersed in a flood of papers, I began to write the book. After each section and each chapter was completed, I returned the notes to the boxes along with notations for future footnoting. When the manuscript was finished, I went back to all these sources to check the accuracy of attributions. As a final protection, I revisited the 300 books themselves. Somehow in this process...
When the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) released its recommendations on the outsourcing of workers and the implementation of a living wage last month, it contributed the latest chapter in the struggle that has seen thousands of people call upon the University to recognize its moral imperative to treat low-wage service workers with the dignity they deserve as human beings and as full members of the Harvard community. On Jan. 18, the formal comment period on the committee’s report ends, leaving the decision to enact the recommendations up to the University?...
...film festival in Jerusalem last month is one of the first media examinations of Holocaust survivors' plight. The film, Last Journey Into Silence, directed by Shosh Shlam, has saddened and shocked audiences, but it is contributing to a growing debate about the problem. "It's the last chapter in the Holocaust," says Henry Szor, a psychiatrist who treats survivors at Abarbanel Mental Health Center in Bat Yam, Israel's biggest mental facility. "The conspiracy of silence is being broken...
...depression. New research by Abarbanel psychiatrists finds that Holocaust survivors are 40% more likely to commit suicide than other old people. Though 1,200 survivors die in Israel each year, the Finance Ministry estimates it will still be making payments to the rest for another 30 years. The final chapter will be long, but perhaps easier than those that went before. At least some of the survivors with their minds still trapped in the camps may finally be liberated...