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...That’s right, yesterday, while everyone else in Massachusetts celebrated Patriot’s Day—commemorating the battles fought at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, ostensibly kick-starting the American Revolution—we here at Harvard were milling back and forth between classes...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DIX' SPORTING GOODS: Students Join in Boston Tradition | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

Conway added that Massachusetts will kick off the initiative with a campaign to inform the public of end-of-life care options, and will put in place a pilot program to find a method to capture patients’ wishes, which has been very successful in states like Oregon...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Cost of End-of-Life Care | 4/18/2008 | See Source »

...center-left for its failure to respond to the country's needs under Romano Prodi, whose less than two years in office now amount to a brief interregnum bracketed by Berlusconi. But the 71-year-old center-right leader must overcome Italians' deep-seated doubts that any politician can kick the country into gear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlusconi's Dilemma | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...grew up in the family hardware store—Hank told me that’s why he hired me. He thought I had some customer service experience, so I always got a kick out of that,” said Wigdahl, who was 25 years old when Moses gave him his first job at the University...

Author: By Christian B. Flow and Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Former Freshmen Dean Dies at 66 | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...they underestimate the power of the “psychological immune system.” In a dangerous or embarrassing situation, the human mind retreats into rationality, allowing those involved to move past the event and return to former levels of happiness. Because this psychological immune system does not kick in until necessary, people predict more dramatic changes in their happiness levels than actually occur...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: One Happy Man | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

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