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...that are as extraordinary as being present at the birth of a baby and serving as part of the noisy team. It is one of the most personal and intimate moments of a family's life and yet one that we as doctors are invited to attend. In sharp contrast to the joyful, noise of the usual delivery room, there are also few experiences as dreaded by physicians as a quiet delivery room. Mothers whose conditions are precarious may require emergency C-sections and general anesthesia which renders them mute and requires their family members to stay in the waiting...
...could fill volumes detailing the geopolitical reasons America should abandon Darfur to its fate. The argument for military action, by contrast, rests on just two tarnished words. Last week a small crowd gathered in Kigali, Rwanda. "If you don't protect the people of Darfur today," said a man named Freddy Umutanguha, "never again will we believe you when you visit Rwanda's mass graves, look us in the eye and say 'Never again.'" Try offering a geopolitical answer to that...
...heels of a similar one in last weekend’s opener against Holy Cross.Through two games, the Harvard defense has held the Crusaders and the Bears to just 75 net yards on the ground on 55 carries. That works out to an average of 1.4 yards per run.By contrast, in those same two games, Dawson has run 49 times for 351 yards, an average of 7.2 yards per carry.“They beat us up,” Brown coach Phil Estes said. “They were better up front, they beat us up front...
...contrast, last year’s game at Yale saw a relatively open alcohol policy, where liquor was carried and consumed under the protective, not skeptical eye of police and security officers. The usual mix of age groups at House Committee (HoCo) and student group tailgates meant that students were able to keep an eye on one another. Perhaps not coincidentally, the 2005 Game also marked a sharp drop in the number of students treated for alcohol-related problems (from 50 in 2004 at Harvard...
...Bass case is one of the less-flagrant examples of spots-for-sale in Golden’s book. After all, Bass anted up after his daughter graduated from Harvard. By contrast, real estate tycoon Charles Kushner pledged $2.5 million to Harvard just as his son Jared prepared to apply. Even though an official at Jared’s own high school acknowledged that the scion’s GPA and SATs didn’t merit Harvard admission, he nonetheless won a spot in the Class of ’03. In sum, the examples of admissions-for-donations...