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...that arrived at similar results: in that paper, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Mark Zimmerman of Brown University and his colleagues found that of 315 patients with major depressive disorder who sought care, only 29, or 9.2%, met typical criteria for an efficacy trial. Similarly, psychologist Ronald Kessler of Harvard co-authored a 2003 paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association that concluded that most "real world" patients with major depression would be excluded from clinical trials because of comorbidities...
...selective schools. Harvard economist Caroline Hoxby found that students at elite universities can expect to earn back the difference in cost between the tuition at their first-rank private institution and a third-rank public institution more than 30 times over the course of their careers. Ronald Ehrenberg, a Cornell University economist, also found compelling evidence of a significant economic return to attending a private university: a premium that the data suggests has increased over time...
...gulf translated to a roughly two to three school-year lag in achievement, according to a U.S. Department of Education official quoted in the New York Times. Despite the persistence of these inequities in academic achievement, “the NAEP results are encouraging news,” said Ronald F. Ferguson, director of Harvard’s Achievement Gap Initiative. “While the achievement gap has not narrowed much, achievement is rising for everybody, which is important from a national perspective.” “We want to see whites and Asians reach their full...
Frank became interested in Central and Eastern Europe as a high school student in the last days of the Cold War, when she found herself drawn to the world that Ronald Reagan once referred to as the “Evil Empire.” She majored in German studies and Russian and East European studies at Williams College, and after working as a consultant for health care in Poland, decided to enter graduate school at Harvard to explore the history behind the region...
...Ronald Reagan beat Roosevelt's 24-hour effectiveness record when the 52 U.S. diplomats held hostage by Iranian militants for 444 days were released on Jan. 20, 1981 - the same day on which he took office. Reagan's next 99 days were a bit more subdued, but they still featured $41.4 billion in proposed budget cuts, large tax breaks, the formation of an oversight council to combat government corruption and a dramatic assassination attempt. When John Hinckley Jr. shot Reagan on March 30, 1981, the President's approval rating jumped as high as 68%, but by the 100-day mark...