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WYSS: Generally, I think the policy was correct. Deficits do work. The best advice that was ever given to a politician was what Joseph told the Pharaoh--you store up the grain in the good years, and you use it in the bad years. But they are taking only half that advice this time...
Keeping that generous public spirit in mind, I’d like pose a problem which we, as a University community, can help to correct. Most people in the world do not have access to the medicines they need. In Africa, for example, less than one percent of the 4.1 million HIV positive individuals currently in need of treatment actually receive it. Most of the other 99 percent simply cannot afford the drugs. But universities like Harvard can help to keep drug prices down in developing countries, if they adopt the right policies...
...enlists Pentalver for a sparring match. “I didn’t bring my mouthpiece,” she tells him curtly, “so no punches in the mouth.” The two begin a friendly sparring match, stopping intermittently to laugh, joke or correct each other on form...
Most physicians tend to think of hypochondriacs as nuisances--patients they are just as happy to lose. But a few clinicians, like Barsky and Columbia University neuropsychiatrist Dr. Brian Fallon, have begun to take the condition more seriously. "It's not correct to say there's nothing wrong with a hypochondriac," Fallon asserts. "There is something wrong, but it's a disorder of thought, not of the body." And, as he points out, disorders of thought are neither imaginary nor untreatable...
...unfairly targeted and denied his First Amendment rights. It is incredulous and very disturbing how politically correct people must sound. It's too bad he wasn't or couldn't stand his ground for his (and ours) First Amendment rights. Rebecca Kalima Kailua-Kona, Hawaii...