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...Symphony Orchestra and credit him with motivating them to continue playing music in college. Buzney also mentioned that Cortese, who fulfills conducting engagements worldwide and has extensive experience planning tours for the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, is especially eager to increase the number of HRO performing tours and to bolster the orchestra’s national and international presence. “We were looking for a person who could connect with undergraduates and challenge them on a personal basis... Cortese is the perfect match for an orchestra that is craving to be taken to higher levels...
...health. No small sum, to be sure. But amazingly, what Citi was required to raise was less than half the $13.7 billion that competitor Wells Fargo was told to come up with. And far less than the nearly $34 billion that regulators said Bank of America needed to bolster its capital by in the next six months...
...Some discrepancies would seem to bolster Pelosi's case. Senator Bob Graham, a Florida Democrat who, according to the chart, was briefed later that same month, says he has no recollection of such a meeting. And Senator Jay Rockefeller, who was briefed in September 2003, says critical information was withheld from him about the legality of the practices to such an extent that by 2005 he had launched a "full-scale effort to investigate," according to his office. (Read about the torture memos that were released...
...bolster their findings, the authors cite a smaller 2002 study that arrived at similar results: in that paper, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Mark Zimmerman of Brown University and his colleagues found that of 315 patients with major depressive disorder who sought care, only 29, or 9.2%, met typical criteria for an efficacy trial. Similarly, psychologist Ronald Kessler of Harvard co-authored a 2003 paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association that concluded that most "real world" patients with major depression would be excluded from clinical trials because of comorbidities...
Largely the brainchild of Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, the act aims to dramatically bolster the number of college graduates who opt to participate in national service...