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...facilities—a move that is nearly certain to affect future expansion plans by Harvard Medical School’s 15 affiliated teaching hospitals. The measure—which is driven by concerns of rising health care costs and competition placed on local community health centers by Boston??s many prestigious hospitals—forces companies to prove to state officials that their proposed facilities do not duplicate local services. Urban costs and overcrowding have made the suburbs prime turf for hospital expansion. “Many [community hospitals] can benefit from an appropriate relationship with teaching...
...private institutions stayed relatively flat overall, although the survey found significant increases at some of the wealthiest private institutions. Three private university presidents earned more than Gee in the academic year 2006-2007, the most recent year for which data is available at private institutions: David J. Sargent of Boston??s Suffolk University, Henry S. Bienen of Northwestern University, and Columbia’s Bollinger. Sargent took top spot on the earnings chart by a wide margin, bringing in $2,800,461. Greg Gatlin, director of public affairs at Suffolk, said the reported compensation was so high because...
...Prophet” enjoyed relative success among Gibran’s contemporaries and was rediscovered in the 60s as a spiritual guidebook written by an “Oriental wise man.” The truth of the matter, though, is that Gibran moved to Boston??s South End at the age of 12, having previously received no formal education in the Lebanon. Though he returned to Beirut for high school, he wrote more prodigiously in English than in Arabic, and “The Prophet” is the child of his efforts. Although his biblical style...
...order to sustain this trend, Paleologos and the Film Office are trying to find ways to develop the workforce of below-the-line film employees that are not generally connected to a film before it starts shooting. The abundance of students studying film at Boston??s many colleges are a renewable resource of future film workers, and the Film Office has organized a “PA Bootcamp” in coordination with area schools...
...Boston??s taste in film, which she says “tends to run outside of the mainstream,” has allowed many unique festivals to flourish in the area, including the Boston Jewish, Boston Latino, and the Boston Gay and Lesbian Festivals. And although loyalty seems to lie with the local film community, its members believe that a relationship with Hollywood can be mutually beneficial...