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While this week’s protests are unlikely to affect regulations, Benjamin said the Red Cross is working to lower risks of contracting disease through blood transfusions—which could, eventually, mean a policy change...
...There is no question that Chomsky influenced the petition-signers,” MIT’s Florez Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker wrote in an e-mail. Pinker, a well-known linguist who signed the anti-divestment petition, stressed that differing political viewpoints do not affect the MIT linguistics department’s work environment. Nonetheless, Pinker noted that Chomsky “has enormous influence, both scholarly and political, among many MIT linguists, philosophers, political scientists and cognitive scientists...
...unanimous decision by the Board of Overseers to add the word “ordinarily” in front of the clause that mandates a year of residency before students receive a Harvard degree, Harvard can now implement significant distance learning programs. This beneficial change, which will predominantly affect students in mid-career programs, both provides students with additional flexibility in pursuing degrees and gives Harvard the ability to possibly create more attractive academic programs...
Whether the tone Monteiro has set and the rulings he has made will ultimately affect the outcome of the election is impossible to say. The soft-spoken and thoughtful commissioner says he has just tried to ensure an honest race...
...It’s still early in the year, so I don’t think it’s going to affect us that much,” Jantzen said. “We’re facing some of the top teams in the nation, and we’ve got a bunch of really young guys wrestling, so now we have an idea of how hard we need to focus...