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...Harvard to developments in the world at large, or tries to document the effects Harvard has on the world through its graduates, its researchers or as an institution. While the Kellers dont deny that the story of modernization at Harvard is informed by modernization on a national scale, they limit themselves from the start to events inside the ivory tower. In dealing with the turbulence of the late 1960s, for example, the Kellers focus is not on how the activists at Harvard resembled and differed from radicals across the country, but rather on the effects of the turbulence...
...include anger, depression and, finally, acceptance. Last week's blasts, however, may have ripped out that recovery route. "A woman kisses her husband goodbye, and the next thing she sees, the whole damn building falls down," says psychiatrist Marvin Lipkowitz of Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center. "There's a limit to what the mind can take...
...people who were touched by the devastation may be reaching that limit, it's possible that people living in other parts of the country may be moving close enough to glimpse it. The repeated slow-motion images of the towers swooning and buckling, the shots of victims tarred and feathered with blood and dust, the very ordinariness of the workday exploding into a doomsday may exact a psychological toll as people wonder whether the same hell will be visited on them...
...Andrews Air Force Base for two days in June for a germ-warfare assault on America's heartland. The exercise was called Dark Winter. The scenario: Oklahoma, Georgia and Pennsylvania have been deliberately targeted with smallpox virus. The mission: to marshal the full resources of the Federal Government and limit the damage. But even though the players included seasoned leaders--former Senator Sam Nunn acting as the President, former presidential adviser David Gergen as National Security Adviser, Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating playing himself--the situation got quickly out of hand. Within two weeks, 16,000 Americans were infected...
...enough light is shined on the issue, however, that might change. When Rep. Jim Oberstar suggested to a line up of well-dressed airline executives at a House hearing this afternoon that some limit on executive compensation might be in the cards, heads started bobbing obediently. "We certainly would talk to you about whatever terms you want," said one. Now that's more like...