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Whether it's the stress or the fear or the sense of purpose, the issues people find they have in common overwhelm what once divided them. "I think people realize that we are one country and we have one goal, and that's to live and survive," says Peter Devonish, 42, a Jamaican-born printer in New York City's West Harlem. "People stop putting first politics and color and rich and poor and just realize that the problem that faces me is the problem that faces you. We see the security guards in the World Trade Center--little people...
...there's another attack." According to TIME's poll, two-thirds of Americans believe that the events of Sept. 11 will define a generation the way the Kennedy assassination did. UCLA now offers courses on "Navigating Between Blithesome Optimism and Cultural Despair" and "Implications of World Crises for Student Stress and Academic Achievement," in which students will write a journal and interview one another. But on most campuses, rattled students have to fend for themselves. Mental-health services are mobbed; at Syracuse University there's now a 19-day wait to see a counselor unless it's an emergency...
...ivory tower have not remained immune. For students like Gwen are not alone. She says many students in her own firm have been demoted to secretarial positions and she knows of alums at Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley and Salomon Smith Barney who have lost their positions as well. But stress is nothing new for the typical Harvard student...
...priority and Ashraf secured a spot. Even so, with decorating decisions still to be made, the room is not slated to open until reading period in January. This is actually good timing, says Ashraf, because students will be able to access the meditation room during their times of greatest stress...
...from a particularly privileged background. “My dad is an active member of a union and I have been aware from a very young age that my family owes its prosperity to the power of unions,” she says. Indeed, all PSLM members strain to stress the diversity of backgrounds from which they come. But the fact that they will all graduate with Harvard degrees places them firmly within the ranks of the elite...