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...Veterans of the spring break trips said their work in New Orleans has inspired them to new relief efforts—and they are not the first Harvard students who have taken up the cause after volunteering in the city...
...Bourbon Street bounced back within months of the catastrophe, and a strip club on the street was among the first businesses to reopen, serving relief workers and policemen...
...still received some good news. The Ivy League office honored Crimson hurlers Shawn Haviland and Adam Cole with two of its weekly awards. Haviland, the sophomore ace, was named Pitcher of the Week on the strength of his 11 1/3 innings without allowing an earned run. After two stellar relief outings over spring break in Florida, Haviland twirled a complete-game seven-hitter at Princeton on Saturday, striking out seven. Cole was singled out as the Rookie of the Week for his efforts in the Princeton nightcap. In his Ivy League debut, Cole fanned 11 batters in 7 2/3 frames...
...said.Few of the student volunteers had known New Orleans before the storm, though, and they were left to reconstruct mental images of what the Big Easy once had been.ANOTHER KIND OF TRAUMAResearch suggests that trauma is not confined to the immediate victims of a disaster. Relief workers and volunteers—the second wave of people on the scene——are often shaken as well.Professor of Psychology Richard J. McNally cited studies showing how rescue workers or firefighters were affected by terrorist acts like Sept. 11 or the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings...
...legislation. “This is a happy day for the working people of Massachusetts, and everyone who struggles to pay health care bills for their family,” according to Eric P. Lesser ’07, president of the Harvard College Democrats. “Relief is on the way.” His counterpart, Harvard Republican Club President Stephen E. Dewey ’07, wrote in an e-mail: “This is a well-thought-out compromise that accomplishes a lot of good with a minimum of intervention...