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The increase in the use of medication among U.S. troops suggests the heavy mental and psychological price being paid by soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pentagon surveys show that while all soldiers deployed to a war zone will feel stressed, 70% will manage to bounce back to normalcy. But...
In January, J. K. Rowling was named Harvard’s Commencement speaker. The choice delighted some students and irritated others, who found her not up to the standard of 2007’s Bill Gates or 1943’s George Marshall. Rowling may well prove to be an...
Axel Brugger, who will graduate from a mid-career master’s program today, said the speech reminded him of the words on the gates of Harvard Yard which read “Enter to grow in wisdom” and on the inside “Depart to...
For many, Rowling may lack the gravitas of past years’ speakers, who include Microsoft founder Bill Gates, former United Nations leader Kofi Annan, and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
A fiction writer will provide a perspective very different from someone like Bill Gates, said Carole Horne, general manager and a buyer at The Harvard Book Store. Such a perspective can be provocative and profound for those embarking on the next phase of their lives, Horne said.