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...eliminate up to 300 jobs next year, third-year medical students who are enrolled in the alliance’s hospital-training program will not be affected, officials said. The CHA acknowledge this week that Massachusetts’ pioneering health care reform law has left it with the burden of treating patients without insurance, but without providing adequate reimbursements to the alliance. The CHA has freezed hiring and cut discretionary spending to curb its losses. Still, the alliance, which includes Cambridge Hospital and two others in the Boston area, will continue to provide on-site training for third-year...
...trying to convert the uncommitted.” The panelists stressed that students should work to their own unique abilities when fighting to close the achievement gap, whether through public service, mobilization efforts, or business. Students in the audience said that they were moved by the discussion, as the burden to close the gap seemed to be placed on their shoulders. “We have the additional responsibility to be accountable to the community,” said Alexis Watson, a second-year student at HKS. “We have the opportunity to be here, and it gives...
...theses, and cultivating relationships), the opportunity for privacy is fundamental for reflection and development. At this point, changes in housing go from being a matter of convenience to a matter of mental health. Obviously, students cannot be denied housing, so something must be done to accommodate larger classes. This burden, however, is not being distributed evenly. It is difficult to justify cramming some seniors into doubles in certain houses while students are essentially promised “singles for life” in Mather and the Quad. Furthermore, if the College is concerned about space, it should look into creating...
...have fled the country I don't believe there is a serious humanitarian aid effort in neighboring countries. Yes, there have been announcements about programs, but there aren't any concrete programs to deal with these problems. Neighboring countries are recipients of Iraqi refugees. Most of the burden should lie on the Iraqi government on what to do. We do not feel it is a priority for them to solve these problems. Inside Iraq, we have around 2 million scattered all over the country after 2006 February. This is a problem and I don't believe the international...
...want to be the Dalai Lama? Bearing the burden of an entire people's frustration, anger and despair over half a century can't be easy at the best of times for their exiled spiritual leader. But since the anti-Chinese demonstrations began in and outside Tibet on March 10, the Dalai Lama has found himself confronting a swelling tide of opposition and defiance from within his community. So, on the one hand, he has to contend with Beijing calling him the mastermind of the violent protests in Lhasa, and to walk a diplomatic tightrope with the Indian authorities that...