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...every solder killed or physically wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan, some 10 others come home psychically scarred. The Pentagon has diagnosed roughly 40,000 troops with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) since 2003, and tens of thousands of others are dealing with it on their own or ultimately will be diagnosed. With the war taking such a heavy psychological toll, some inside the military are starting to ask if men and women who become mentally injured in the service of their country deserve the Purple Heart. To some traditionalists, the idea is absurd on its face...
...Purple Heart, created by General George Washington in 1782, has historically been limited to those physically wounded or killed in combat. The Army classifies PTSD as an illness, not an injury, which means it doesn't qualify for the honor. But John Fortunato, an Army psychologist at Fort Bliss, Texas, argued in early May that PTSD affects soldiers by physically damaging their brains, making the condition no different than conventional wounds. Soldiers with PTSD often have suffered as much "as anybody with a traumatic brain injury, as anybody with a shrapnel wound," he said. Their ineligibility for a Purple Heart...
...that most of its members are music critics and their fury has a Lou Dobbs--on--immigration edge to it. To mark the release of 2005's X&Y, the New York Times' Jon Pareles declared, "Coldplay is the most insufferable band of the decade." (Adding salt to the wound, the piece appeared in the same section as a full-page ad for X&Y.) In his book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman upped the loathing and expanded the time frame: "Coldplay is absolutely the s____iest f___ing band I've ever heard in my entire...
...League title in 2008—the 11th in the program’s history and third in the last four years—but ultimately, the season was incomplete. After controlling its own destiny for an outright title in the league’s final weekend, the Crimson wound up sharing the conference crown with Dartmouth and Cornell and falling in an Ivy playoff—and losing out on a return trip to the NCAA tournament. “Our ultimate goal was to get back to the tournament,” departing captain Lindsay Hallion said...
...some veteran leadership to help Harvard maintain its accustomed level of success. Sophomore Alexandra Clarke and senior diver Samantha Papadakis were the Crimson’s other two qualifiers for the NCAA Championships in March. Clarke, who re-set her own school records in the 1000 and 1650 freestyle, wound up in 21st in her signature event, the 1650, at NCAAs. “I was a little disappointed in my performance,” Clarke said after the event. “I swam faster at our meet in Georgia [in December] and at Ivies.” Papadakis...