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...Assistant Dean for Public Service Alexa Shabecoff, is greatly exceeded: the average HLS student performs an impressive 400 hours of public service before graduation). And on top of an already-generous loan forgiveness program, HLS just announced an unprecedented initiative to not charge third-year tuition to students who commit to public-service careers. Such measures have encouraged more and more Harvard graduates to use their law degrees to help people who really need legal services, but may not have the cash to pay. The traditional five or six percent of HLS graduates going into public-service...
...Some of that confusion has been cleared up in reaction to Virginia Tech. In Virginia, Governor Tim Kaine signed a law on April 9 that will require courts to forward information about all involuntary mental health commitments to the state's central criminal records database. New laws will also broaden the standard Virginia uses to commit people against their will and increase the monitoring of those receiving outpatient care (as Cho was supposed to do but didn't). And Virginia also now requires that universities notify parents if a dependent child receives treatment at a campus counseling center. "I think...
...health delivery programs in AIDS and other diseases; however, in order for these efforts to succeed in developing effective health systems that are accessible by the poor, universities must continue to support the quantitative and qualitative research that establishes decision-making principles in global health delivery. Universities must also commit to training a generation of future leaders, especially those from developing nations, in the multi-disciplinary field of global health delivery. Just as medical schools require two years of hands-on training through clinical rotations, so must research universities establish research and experiential learning opportunities overseas for future practitioners...
...Believers and nonbelievers have a moral duty to do what is right, an obligation that stems not wholly from religion but more from a universal moral law that guides free men and women everywhere. There is a greater voice that speaks to all of us every time we commit a deed that is contrary to our place in the world. Why not do the best we can while here on earth for a short time? John J. Pino, NEWTOWN SQUARE...
...fair elections more seriously recently. Most notably, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria was forced out last year when his term was up. At the same time, continent-wide reforms have improved governance. At the end of the last century, African rulers, led by Mbeki and South Africa, began to commit to the rule of law, human rights, and free and fair elections. The Organisation of African Unity, little more than a club for dictators, was reconstituted as the African Union, with aspirations to rule Africa better and a mandate to intervene in countries suffering coups or genocidal civil wars...