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...continues a strong tradition of Harvard students delving into the film industry. The novel will be released April 4. The last time a Harvard student, while still in attendance, was approached with a film deal was in the fall of 2002 when the autobiography of former Harvard student Elizabeth Murray commenced filming in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Murray’s book about her struggles as an adolescent living on the streets, entitled Breaking Waters, was picked up by Hyperion Press and quickly adapted into a Lifetime movie, which became the most watched broadcast in Lifetime’s history...
...other high-tech amusements, including a tweenage doll with artificial intelligence, an interactive easel and a musical robot fueled by MP3s. Here's a look at some of the most promising playthings hitting the show floor this week--and store shelves across the U.S. later this year. --By Maryanne Murray Buechner...
...BEYOND The civil libertarian positions that Chertoff staked out as an undergraduate at the College seem compatible with much of his early career, including his post-Harvard Law School clerkships for liberal Supreme Court Justice and fellow Harvard Law School alumnus William J. Brennan and for Appeals Court Judge Murray I. Gurfein, the judge who first permitted The New York Times to print The Pentagon Papers. After first working in private practice, Chertoff worked under then-U.S. Attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani in New York. In 1990, he was appointed the U.S. attorney for New Jersey by former President Bush...
...split their time between Australia and the U.S., is an epidemic of depression. They accept the more dire estimates about the illness's prevalence - 1 in 4 people in those countries. Such numbers bemuse the skeptics, who suspect medicos who quote them of links to the drug industry. But Murray and Fortinberry generally disparage antidepressants. They do believe that a depressed brain is different - physically - to a healthy one, but not as a result of some spontaneous chemical abnormality. Rather, they back the theory that emotional stress in the early years inhibits proper development of certain areas of the brain...
...obvious ways - they have to do a lot of things right. The child who forms a close relationship with his parents will grow up to form close relationships with others, and that, the authors contend, is the secret to happiness. "It's kind of dead simple," says Murray. "Human beings are relationship-forming animals. That's what we are. All our genetics gear us toward solid, supportive relationships. It is through these that we survive." Just as strong bonds are the path to avoiding depression, so they're the only escape route from its grip. Fortinberry says her depression...