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...face of so much need, too often comes denial. At a May 6 hearing, lawmakers lit into officials from Veterans Affairs after an e-mail surfaced from Ira Katz, its chief of mental health, on suicide rates of soldiers in its care. The subject line: "Shhh." The VA had been insisting there were fewer than 800 suicide attempts a year by vets in its care; the real number was closer to 12,000. "Is this something we should (carefully) address ourselves in some sort of release before someone stumbles on it?" Katz asked. Bob Filner, chair of the House Committee...
...greatest dangers in contemporary society is to imagine that everything will always be the same, and that things we do now will have no repercussions in future decades or centuries,” Latin professor Kathleen M. Coleman wrote in an e-mail, adding that she is hopeful that Gen Ed will find an adequate place for the study of the past...
...world we inhabit has been shaped by historical change,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Without understanding the past, we can have only a superficial sense of the present and a shallow sense of the limitations and possibilities we’ll confront in the future...
...humanistic disposition is as relevant to the sciences—soft and hard—as it is to the social sciences,” he wrote in an e-mail. “General Education has a duty to serve both humanities departments and the larger cause of humanistic thinking and belief...
...would be a tremendous boost for the Buddhist community here. The Karmapa's p.r. representative claims he has attained a near sell-out of 21,000 seats at teachings he will give here (starting with one Saturday at Manhattan's Hammerstein Ballroom) almost solely on the strength of e-mail chains. Many in the audience will be his age. When a reporter noted that the Kagyu lineage is known for its stress on practice and that his own generation is not known for its patience, the Karmapa delivered some advice that his American followers could no doubt appreciate. "If people...