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...lower Manhattan was still a blackened gash left by Islamo-Nazis, and suicide bombers were murdering Israeli grandparents and children at their seder tables. The deduction: Harvard should divest from companies that do business with Israel, honked the herd. (Some European geese—may they get bird flu—went farther, banning Israeli academics, even critics of government policy, from journals and meetings.) When President Summers suggested, much more charitably than necessary in my view, that the result, if not the intent, of the divestment petition was anti-Semitic, his remarks were decried as censorious. Censorious? I thought...
...symposium on natural and unnatural disasters yesterday. The “In Harm’s Way” symposium, sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment, featured four panel discussion groups, which considered topics ranging from social vulnerability patterns to the pending threat of avian bird flu. Summers, a featured speaker at the symposium, said that Harvard’s focus should not be on providing direct financial and logistical assistance to relief efforts. He cautioned against duplicating the work of groups such as the American Red Cross. “Ultimately, we would make the largest...
...appearance of bird flu in the United States could cause extensive economic disruption, according to a new poll surveying 1,043 people by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH...
Blendon said that in the future, he hoped to do some later tracking on what people thought about the progression of bird flu as part of the series, and that two or three more surveys might be done if the threat persisted...
Meanwhile, the University’s emergency management structure has been working on formulating a contingency plan for a flu emergency. On Feb. 2, a “table-top” drill was held by over 250 University officials on how to deal with a bird flu crisis at Harvard...