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...including a Thanksgiving weekend thrashing of then-No. 10 Clarkson and then-No. 2 St. Lawrence. It was at that point that sophomore goaltender Christina Kessler—who earned the starting job when junior Brittany Martin was slowed with a back injury—came into her own. Kessler recorded four shutouts in her first 10 games in net en route to an NCAA record 12-shutout season.Then on Dec. 14, just four days after reaching the top of the polls, Harvard fell to No. 2 New Hampshire in a 4-1 thumping.“We were sort...
That realization is sinking in with some socially conscious rabbis. In Febuary, Rabbi Meir Kessler from Kiryat Sefer called two late-night meetings in which 3,000 parents were urged to warn their children that even men in beards and hats are capable of evil. The rabbi's candid sermon has stirred debate among the shuttered Haredim. One stunned participant told reporters that "not since Moses" had a rabbi spoken publicly on such forbidden sexual topics. The spate of abuse cases prompted Israel's chief Ashkenazi rabbi, Yona Metzger, to call on his fellow religious leaders "to vomit these parents...
...Ryder B. Kessler ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears regularly...
What's more, Kessler's report considers only severe mental illness in its calculations. Yet more than one in four American adults suffers from shorter-term, but clinically diagnosable mental disorders in a given year - including depression or an eating disorder - and such disorders are the leading cause of disability among U.S. workers under age 45. In 2005, research by Kessler showed that 60% of Americans with a mental disorder got no treatment for their ailment...
Though these figures may seem high, Kessler and his colleagues caution that they are likely too conservative. For one thing, the study's conclusions are based on data from 2002; today, Kessler says, the rate of mental illness is likely higher due to a variety of causes, including the Iraq war starting in 2003. But, more importantly, lost earning potential is only one of the many indirect costs of mental illness in American society. Social Security payments, homelessness and incarceration add to that economic burden, as well as direct costs such as medications and physicians' care. "The actual costs...