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...Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) in Washington find that this standard is fueling a de facto medical arms race, a competition that, perversely, increases health-care costs. Competition is not supposed to do that, but in the topsy-turvy U.S. health economy, excess supply often induces demand...
...useless on its own. But even if the measure generates national publicity, the EAC would do far better to present an accurate measurement of the costs to give this exercise in student box-checking some meaning. Without a clear idea of the necessary sacrifices, a potentially powerful student demand is reduced to a futile wish...
Contrary to what their blood-red campaign posters demand, Undergraduate Council presidential candidates Tim R. Hwang ’08 and Alexander S. Wong ’08 do not actually want to “kill the UC.” Rather, they want to wound it severely.The offbeat presidential candidate and his armchair-theorist running mate say that if elected, they would eliminate the UC’s role as middleman between students and the administration and transfer decision-making power to undergraduates.Neither Hwang nor Wong have had any UC experience, but they embrace their outsider status...
...Hinduism,” he says. “I love the color of the sunset...It just epitomizes being thankful.”“That’s what he says when he wants to get girls,” Anene adds jokingly.‘DEMAND A CHANGE’Anene and De Beausset have both worked to bring about reform while at Harvard.Though their campaign slogan reads “Demand a Change,” the two have often taken different approaches in instituting reform.Anene, an Eliot resident who says...
When the Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, went on the block, it was another response to stockholders' insatiable demand for rising returns, even for papers with loyal readership and steady ad support. But now that a bevy of bigwig buyers are itching to own prestigious dailies, newspapers in key markets may benefit from a return to private ownership. Why would baron bidders like Hank Greenberg, Jack Welch and David Geffen--who have expressed interest in the Tribune Co., the Boston Globe and the L.A. Times, respectively--rush in to bet on slow-growth...