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There's at least one undeniable benefit of pay-per-performance programs: they're forcing doctors and hospitals to pay closer attention to quality controls. Rosenthal points to diabetes care as an example. "Doctors may not yet be convincing every patient to have their blood sugar tested annually," she says. "But at least now [they're more aware of] which patients need to be tested." So while pay-for-performance may be an imperfect solution in an imperfect system, she adds, "At least it's a step in the right direction...
Since his resignation in June 2006, former University President Lawrence H. Summers has traveled the world offering economic advice. Closer to home, the former secretary of the Treasury has gained attention for urging the United States government to institute a stimulus package to revive a stumbling economy. Currently a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, Summers spoke with The Crimson by phone this week to offer his reflections on the last two years since leaving office...
...doesn’t get much better than this.’” It got better the following Friday, when the Crimson beat the last-place Bears to deliver coach Kathy Delaney-Smith’s 400th career victory and move one step closer to the outright title. But the next night at Yale, everything came crashing down. Harvard held a one-point halftime lead, but the Bulldogs stayed in it, using a 6-0 run in the final five minutes to seal the upset. “Nothing compares to that,” Delaney-Smith said...
...after the Yale win. “Just one day at a time, one practice at a time, we said our next practice is our best practice, our next game is our best game, and this is one of those teams that got better and better through the year, closer and closer through the year...
...being done. A conference in Erbil, Iraq, in December attended by representatives of Iraq’s ministries, universities, and NGO community concluded that universities must be given autonomy in order to assure their academic freedom. But this measure has been on the table since 2003 and is no closer to implementation...