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...doctor what's wrong with America's healthcare system, and be prepared to pull up a chair. You'll hear a litany of complaints about Kafka-esque bureaucracies, litigious patients, unreasonable insurance companies, too few nurses, never enough time, too much testing and not enough talk. But complaining gets us nowhere-we need solutions. Here are my top seven reforms for health care...
...concentration set up booths to welcome both current students and prefrosh attendees. “It’s really exciting to see all the student groups out here celebrating environmental awareness and involvement,” said Faon M. O’Connor ’08, co-chair of Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee (EAC). Neighborhood establishments such as Harvest Supermarkets also turned out to hawk their wares and spread their environmentally friendly message. “This is our first time coming to Earth Day here at Harvard,” said Chris Durkin, Director...
...crisis of University governance, the group has decided to continue meeting even after University President Lawrence H. Summers’ resignation.“We talked about whether our group should continue to exist into the future, and we decided it should,” said History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74 in a recent interview. “People find it valuable to be able to exchange information.”Gordon and James J. McCarthy, the chair of the committee on degrees in environmental science and public policy, are the co-ordinators...
...which can carry a hefty price tag. Next semester, materials in the Ec 10 sourcebook will be linked to online, where they are available to students at no additional charge. The sourcebook, which was singled out in the UC’s report, costs $60. UC Student Affairs Committee Chair Ryan A. Petersen ’08 called the response from the administration “pretty strong,” but said he still has concerns about the implementation of the cost-cutting initiative. The members of the committee also discussed allowing freshmen to enroll directly into the four...
...equality when it comes to child-bearing.STICKER PRICEWhile schools including Princeton and Yale subsidize half of the tuition costs for their faculty members’ children—at these schools or another undergraduate institution—Harvard offers no tuition discounts to professors’ progeny.According to Lisa Martin, chair of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Standing Committee on Women, Harvard’s “tuition assistance” consists of interest free loans to help with education at any institution.Princeton pays half tuition at any undergraduate institution for the children of faculty who have been...