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Finally, sit down with our military correspondent Mark Thompson's moving and powerful piece about the hard life of Army recruiters. Their job is one of the most stressful in the military: the number of recruiters who killed themselves last year was triple the overall Army rate. Mark details the tragic suicides of four members of a Texas battalion--men who had fought and survived the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq but were unable to handle the often brutal and unnecessary requirements of being a recruiter here at home. Mark's story is a morality tale about another hidden cost...
...give Harvard an 8-3 lead. For Francis, the home run was the tenth of her Crimson career, moving her into tenth place on Harvard’s career home run list and equaling her place on the Crimson’s all-time RBI list—a mark she reached in the day’s first contest.“I didn’t even know [of my standing],” Francis said. “I couldn’t have done it without my teammates. They just pump...
...Despite widespread admiration, this semester will mark the end of Mitchnick’s dynamic and influential presence in the department. According to the terms of her current contract as an Arhnhiem lecturer, Mitchnick is only allowed a once renewable five-year appointment. But the contract does not state that she and other Arnheim lecturers cannot be hired under different circumstances...
...oversized poster board alongside the boss caricature. A former hedge fund manager pins his thumbtack somewhere between "The Economy" and "Consumer Spending" while a few yards away, a laid off videographer for media gossip site Gawker tosses a telephone wrapped in electrical tape just shy of the 100-point mark, as designated by circle drawn with sidewalk chalk. Prizes are awarded, mostly in the form of gift certificates to local restaurants and bars - Goddard had advertised a month of free medical insurance, but found it difficult to follow through. "For some reason, medical insurance companies don't like to give...
...regional summit in Doha, where President Bashar al-Assad reaffirmed his support for resistance against Israel while expressing reservations about the Arab Peace Initiative, the Syrian president dropped a bombshell by embarking on an epoch-making visit to Tel Aviv Wednesday morning. "Nobody saw this coming," said Mark Burnes, a State Department analyst who monitors Syrian affairs. "We knew that they were close to a deal, but the Israelis didn't tell us how close."... Official sources say that earlier that same morning, [Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu] had himself embarked upon an epoch-making visit to Syria, touching down...