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...sense of the psychological fallout of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but a major study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week brought the problem into sharp focus. The study, which involved 6,200 soldiers and Marines and was conducted by a team at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, is the first attempt to understand the psychological effects of a U.S. war while it is ongoing. Most of the participants were screened within three or four months of returning from battle, when memories--and any psychological wounds--were still fairly fresh...
...utility Enel cheered the flotation of its national power-grid owner Terna. And even after a bungled lead-up, investors piled in for a 33% share of Postbank, Germany's largest retail bank, generating €1.55 billion for parent Deutsche Post. Will investors tire? "The cash is there," insists Walter Kemmsies, head of European equity strategy at JPMorgan. "The market for IPOs is open." Next up: France Télécom hopes to raise €1.8 billion in July from the sale of a 30% stake in its Pages Jaunes directories business. Seems they've found the market...
...addition to Bloembergen, Hubel, Herschbach, Lipscomb and Benacerraf, the Harvard signers included Professor of Surgery emeritus Joseph E. Murray, Loeb University Research Professor Walter Gilbert ’53, Higgins Professor of Physics emeritus Sheldon L. Glashow and Higgins Professor of Physics emeritus Norman F. Ramsey...
...they thought of as a neighbor. The Washington National Cathedral was filled with the world's power fraternity, including President George W. Bush and all the living former Presidents--Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Jerry Ford--and some who had tried but failed--Al Gore, Bob Dole, Walter Mondale. After the service, Reagan's casket was clamped to the floor in the back of a plane that is used as Air Force One, and he began his journey home with family, old friends and staff...
Harvard's Class Day speakers have included the likes of Mother Teresa, Walter Cronkite, Hank Aaron, Ralph Nader and Conan O'Brien. Last week the satirical British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, better known as the faux hip-hop journalist ALI G, joined the distinguished ranks. Wearing a skullcap, matching track suit emblazoned "Professor of Erbology" and chains, Ali G addressed "da most cleverest of students in America" and their parents with a homily that, in his inimitably maladroit manner, touched on everything from sex, drugs and pornography to famous Harvard grads like "Lyndon Baines Johnson, or, as he is known...