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...costumes, unusual choreography, bizarre story of pagan sacrifice, and Stravinsky’s musical innovations, all of which tested the patience of the audience to the extreme. “My hope at the symposium is to recapture something of the excitement of the premiere, by thinking about the context in which the Rite’s first audience experienced it,” Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music Thomas Forrest Kelly notes of “The Rite of Spring.” “The cultural context of Paris in 1913, the context of the Russian...
...mentioned by The Crimson, first-year medical students have weekly “clinics” during which physicians present patients to provide clinical context to basic science. During one such clinic, Dr. Julian Adams—the lead developer of the drug bortezomib—described the drug’s scientific discovery and clinical development. Dr. Richardson then interviewed a patient who was being successfully treated with bortezomib-based therapy, providing a very human perspective to the presentation. The discussion of the patient’s experience with both the disease and treatment was inspirational and relevant...
...presentation. There was no existing policy mandating disclosure of potential conflicts of interest, and there is absolutely no indication that he supports anything but transparency. In no way do we question Dr. Richardson’s character or his commitment to his patients or to us as students. The context of the presentation simply made students aware that no formal conflict-of-interest disclosure policy existed...
...quotations from David Tian and Shamsher Samra (HMS ’12) in The Crimson’s coverage were taken out of context. We want to be clear that they were not meant to describe our otherwise very positive interactions with Dr. Richardson and faculty members during the creation of the lecturer disclosure policy. Rather, these quotes described the challenges of advocating for policy changes on conflict of interest beyond the lecture disclosure policy, a topic that also has no bearing on Dr. Richardson...
...kidnapped aid workers, who included an Italian doctor, a Canadian nurse and a French coordinator, were freed after three days.) "In Darfur, kidnappings were basically unheard of until the indictment of Bashir," says MSF's Buth, who previously worked in Sudan. "These incidents are all very specific to the context...