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...donors are alumni. For instance, Eli Broad, who with his wife pledged $100 million to a stem-cell research institute at Harvard this past year, is a Michigan State grad. In fact, the three biggest donations to the University in fiscal year 2006 all came benefactors who don’t have Harvard degrees. Donations from non-alums have allowed Harvard to keep its fundraising numbers up, even if alums aren’t opening their checkbooks...
...summits of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund—said last night in a message from his BlackBerry that he expects “to write on subjects relating to political economy.” He added that he is “excited about [the] broad global audience on topics of great import” that the column will afford him. He said that the column will begin later this month. The FT’s editor, Lionel Barber, told a fellow London-based daily, The Guardian, last week that Summers’ column...
...effort to maintain scientific credibility for their publications, editors have increasingly insisted on disclosure of the funding sources and individual intellectual contributions of medical authors. From such disclosures it quickly becomes apparent that much “research” is simply a feature of a broad continuum of pharmaceutical and medical device promotion. The research is designed and processed by industry; the FDA accepts the selective data; the audience of prescribing physicians is primed with a beautiful array of advertisements and educational promotion; the “thought leaders” among physicians are paid to lecture and influence...
...generous with [Core] bypasses, for example,” he said. The review’s General Education Committee drafted a revised report this summer that is expected to be unveiled within weeks. Previous incarnations of the committee have recommended the elimination of the Core and the creation of broad distribution requirements combined with interdisciplinary courses in general education. Knowles also appeared to be moving to address a concern for some professors under his predecessor, Geisinger Professor of History William C. Kirby, who came under fire from some department chairs for allegedly providing too little transparency in his administration?...
...today's New York Times, " the policy is as monumental as the politics," the meeting had more than the usual share of light-hearted moments. Bush always tries a little too hard to remind those watching at home that he's one of the boys; his penchant for broad one-liners and his reflexive "heh-heh-hehing" has earned him the nickname "Shecky-in-Chief" from some. Today, there was prop comedy from NBC's David Gregory, who had to extricate himself from his microphone cord only to be teased, "I must say, having gone through those gyrations...