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...mission. The group is also spearheading an international service project to donate textbooks to rural African countries. Members visit Roxbury Community Center every other Saturday to cook meals for AIDS patients. But Basilico says that these sorts of direct-impact projects are a limited way to affect the AIDS epidemic. He said students should focus on doing things like getting universities to allow developing countries to use their patented technologies. “There are tons of avenues to be explored that aren’t a quick fix,” he said. “Obviously, this...
...week. The grant, to be paid over five years, will be used to combat health disparities in the Boston area. “This marks the beginning of a bold new effort to solve one of health care’s most troubling problems—health disparities that affect so many Americans because of their backgrounds,” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., said at a press conference announcing the grant last Tuesday. “It’s high time we eliminated these disparities?...
However, Johnson’s forceful decision did not fare as well. Realizing that the higher courts would overturn the ruling anyway, Koh agreed to have the opinion vacated as precedent. That didn’t affect the status of the refugees, who had already been admitted to the U.S.—but it did mean the ruling wouldn’t be binding for similar cases in the future. In exchange, the Justice Department offered to offset part of the university’s legal fees. As a former presidential adviser told Goldstein, the administration wanted...
...continues to see its efforts at economic growth frustrated by a disease that kills farmers, teachers, and businessmen in the prime of their working lives. And HIV/AIDS reserves an especially cruel toll for society’s most vulnerable. Gender discrimination, physiological susceptibility, and economic inequality have combined to affect a profound demographic shift in the disease; almost 60 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and worldwide, women continue to be infected at a higher rate than men. As communities are left bereft of mothers and fathers, orphanages overflow, and grandparents are left...
...it’s really important that those issues are explicitly tackled.” CHI supervisor Keli M. Ballinger, who is also a Dunster House tutor, said that the debate is intended to dig deeper into the candidates’ platforms, and to show how their platforms will affect the overall well-being of the undergraduate community. “Students should be as informed as possible about how the initiatives and the candidates they support will affect their overall well-being,” she said. Over the course of the debate, the candidate pairs each answered...