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...army? Some say that only about a third of the homeless are mentally ill. Studies done in Boston and Philadelphia, where psychiatrists interviewed the homeless in shelters, yield estimates as high as 85%. Yet only a small proportion, perhaps a quarter, of the homeless are former mental patients. So emptying the hospitals, the skeptics say, is not the major cause of homelessness. This is a non sequitur. The social policy mandating that old patients be pushed out of psychiatric hospitals also mandates that new patients be kept out. True, today's young schizophrenic is less likely than yesterday's ever...
...inextricably bound together. "Dear friends," Captain Galal said mournfully after it was all over, "my aircraft was the same one that was hijacked to Sigonella." It was indeed the same Boeing 737 that, scarcely six weeks earlier, had been forced by American Navy jets to land in Sicily, to yield to Italian authorities the terrorists who had hijacked the Achille Lauro. The question was how many more planes would be destroyed, and lives lost, before ways are found to control this peculiarly contemporary form of international lawlessness...
Throughout the spring, Fitzsimmons told The Crimson that he did not expect Summers’ comments to have an effect on the College’s yield...
...HBS’s yield figure has not been finalized, but Aisner says the school expects it will hover around 90 percent...
Only once did Harvard yield more than 24 points, holding opponents below 15 seven times. In the Sept. 25 game against Brown, which saw the Crimson rally from a 21-point deficit to keep its title hopes on track, the defense gave up a season-high 34 points—but only a lone field goal in the second half—as Harvard pulled off a stunning 35-34 win. When the Crimson offense stalled against Dartmouth on Oct. 30, letting the Big Green come within seconds of an upset, it was the defense that clamped down when...