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...some cases, more soldiers die by suicide than in combat, which is really concerning,” said Nock, adding that the rate of suicide in the army has “skyrocketed” in recent years...
...combat the deep-rooted bureaucratic barriers between schools, Faust has designated University-wide themes—human rights, global health, and library reform are a few examples—and established new institutes that serve as magnets, Leonard says, pulling professors together from across disciplines. These provide environments more conducive to faculty collaboration...
This sanctification of labor permeates Lamont, where Harvard students, hounded by the insatiable need to stay busy enough to deserve their privileged place in the modern meritocracy, combat fears of inadequacy through righteous striving. In the library’s confines, undergrads complain about work even when they have none, as if terrified by the prospect of idleness. For, as Max C. E. Weber wrote, in capitalist society, the waste of time is “the first and in principle the deadliest of sins...
...Ukraine also faced crisis, in the realm of health rather than economics. We condemned the country for adopting a policy of banning public gatherings to combat the H1N1 “pandemic,” because such a measure would compromise democracy, especially in an election year...
...talks with Harvard students and graduates in last winter, I found that the majority favor lifting the ban on ROTC; they, and I, feel that the ban makes a negative statement about those in the military now, stigmatizing young officers for the sake of trying to combat the stigma that faces gay military personnel...