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Elliot S. Fisher ’74, one of the co-authors of the study, said that the results highlight the dramatic differences in how hospitals care for end-of-life patients. Given that a great deal of medical literature shows a lack of correlation between more aggressive medical care and the prolonging of life, Fisher said, the findings indicate that the failure to standardize end-of-life care can be immensely costly to the health care system...
...Harvard fold. Knowles and Mary Maples Dunn, who became the first acting dean of the Institute, hammered out one of the merger’s most contentious questions, whether Radcliffe would have its own tenured faculty or a collection of visiting scholars. He was a key player in a deal that was never a fait accompli...
...this is going to do any good and if the BRA is going to go to bat for us,” Task Force member Brent Whelan said. “Are you guys interested in Harvard becoming a more responsible partner, or are we just going to deal with them the way they...
...long name indicates what a big deal it was to add American texts to the canon, which did not really occur until after WWII. It reflects a longstanding tension between the study of literature as something treated objectively (language) and its study as something subjective and inspired (Literature with a capital L). Since the creation of English departments in the late 19th century, “pedants” or “scholars” have shared duties with “dilettantes” or “critics”—often angrily. Questions...
...year after the FLDS arrived, Eldorado city officials held a town meeting. "The citizens got a little restless," Mayor John Nikolauk said. "We gave them a chance to talk and let them vent and then I said, 'Here's the deal. They are not going away, we have to do the best we can.'" One angry woman demanded the town leadership do something because the FLDS were practicing polygamy and living in sin. Nikolauk responded: "Two thousand years ago this young fella stood up in defense of a whore and said he who is without sin cast the first stone...