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Robert Gates The 22nd Secretary of Defense has served eight Presidents and is a past TIME 100 honoree In an eight-month span, Army Major General Mark Graham lost one son to suicide and the other to an IED in Iraq. By launching innovative programs and openly confronting his family's pain, Graham has become a leader in the campaign to reduce the Army's increasing suicide rate...
...short game has gotten a little bit better.' TIGER WOODS, the world's No. 1 golfer, on his return to the sport after an eight-month absence following major knee surgery...
...their treatment - abusing substances on fewer days - it took longer to see improvement among those in the spiritual group. What's more, those who received spiritual guidance reported being significantly more anxious and depressed after four months than those who got secular help. Those problems abated at about the eight-month point, but because substance abusers are at high risk for suicide, some worry that it may not be a good idea to put them through demanding spiritual calisthenics in the early months of their recovery. (Read a 2007 TIME cover story, "How We Get Addicted...
...careful review by senior management of dozens of prospects,” said John A. Ford, a senior vice president at Blackstone. The Ohio native was selected to be the Business School’s dean in April 2006 by then-University President Lawrence H. Summers. This followed an eight-month stint as interim dean of the Business School. Light has taken on a number of different roles during his time in Cambridge, including chairman of the finance unit and director of faculty planning. He is also a currently a director of the Harvard Management Company, the group that manages...
...American literary community was appalled. With its roots in 17th century England, where the laureate still writes occasional verses marking royal births and weddings, the title was one that few American poets rushed to adopt. "It's in the field of politics," scoffed Allen Ginsberg. With artists serving renewable eight-month terms, the U.S. "may be down to third-rate poets pretty quickly," quipped A.R. Ammons. "I don't think Robert Frost would have liked it," said the Atlantic's poetry editor of the man whose reading at John F. Kennedy's 1961 Inauguration symbolized--incorrectly--the position for many...