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...strategic planning comes at a time when the Health Alliance is facing financial woes stemming largely from the number of uninsured patients it has been treating in the months following the enactment of Massachusetts’ health care reform act last year. The hospital system has already cut back on discretionary spending, such as travel costs, and is halfway through laying off roughly 300 workers—nine percent of its staff, according to Health Alliance spokesperson Doug M. Bailey...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Health Alliance May Consolidate Health Care Services | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

Fitzsimmons said that in the future Harvard may give students the option of taking five or more SAT Subject Tests in lieu of the SAT Reasoning Test or its frequent alternative, the ACT...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SAT May Someday Be Optional, Dean Says | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

...Fischer-Tropsch and the complementary American Kellogg process, not the German process only. Moreover it is common knowledge that after World War II the U.S. used captured German scientists to work on synthetic fuels. This was a U.S. Bureau of Mining project instigated by the Synthetic Liquid Fuels Act. Not many people would call the U.S. a Nazi country. Leon Rousseau, JEFFREY'S BAY, SOUTH AFRICA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Introducing Sarah Palin | 9/22/2008 | See Source »

...true almost 40 years ago when our visible, political movement started with the Stonewall Riots at a little bar in Greenwich Village, as it is today. Being LGBT is socially sanctioned not simply because of who we choose to love, but because of the fact that in that act, we are flouting what certain heternomative values that tell us we must be as men and as women. I propose that the true and most noble goal of the movement for LGBT equality is the same goal that would enable qualified women to play football with men: A real, complete...

Author: By Susan Marine | Title: Unfinished Business | 9/22/2008 | See Source »

...inquest marks the first public scrutiny of a "shoot-to-kill" tactic, which London police have maintained was the only way to protect citizens from a suicide bomber. If Judge Wright recommends changes to police procedure, the police will have 56 days to act on them. The proceedings will also be the first time accounts from Tube passengers will be publicly juxtaposed with those of the shooters. The police in question have testified previously that they shouted "armed police" prior to shooting; 17 witnesses have denied this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inquiry Opens into London Police Shooting | 9/22/2008 | See Source »

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