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...increased American military presence in Iraq has recently sparked political debate, but according to a new study, the country should focus less on sending more men into battle and more on how those men will be cared for once they return home. Presented by Kennedy School of Government lecturer Linda J. Bilmes ’80 at the annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association in Chicago, the study explored the economic and logistical strain imposed upon the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) by the volume of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan seeking medical care, disability benefits...
...costs by $100,000 a year by cutting its fume hood exhaust, according to the EAC report. FAS administrators are taking note. The school is working with the five-year-old Harvard Green Campus Initiative to reduce emissions, according to its associate executive dean for physical resources and planning, Linda Snyder. “We’ve got great programs, and we have a number of things in the works,” she said. FAS is already at the forefront of the anti-global warming effort—in research, at least. FAS members’ studies have...
...Gardner, Smith plays a struggling salesman unable to pay the rent or support his family in San Francisco in the early eighties. After his girlfriend Linda (Thandie Newton) walks out, Gardner takes an unpaid internship at stock brokerage firm Dean Witter in hopes of securing a job at the end of six months...
Fortunately, strong performances from Smith and Newton rescue the movie from its hackneyed plot. Newton’s Linda, a hard-hearted realist frustrated by Gardner’s financial failure and enduring optimism, grounds the film in reality. Her anger seethes just below the surface, and Newton skillfully balances her constant rage with appropriate apathy and exhaustion...
...neither stodgy nor crooked. He has a sense of humor and is fatally handsome in the bargain. In both stature and character, he's tall enough that we can look up to him. He's just the leader we need in our highest office. Richard H. Utt Loma Linda, California...