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...high water mark of their popularity, exploring a creative future that looks beyond the end that “Strawberry Jam” seemed to suggest. The album’s defining force, its sonic texture, constitutes a synthesis of the central engines behind its direct predecessors—of the hypnotic groove-generator underscoring much of “Person Pitch” and the manic glee that brought “Strawberry Jam” to life. The result is nothing short of a totally fulfilling, happily singular statement in their already impressive decade of work.Like every other...
...harness the skill sets of lawyers-to-be, doctors-to-be, policy-makers too-be, and businessmen-to-be,” Nortey said. Kennedy School student Desiree M. Cormier stressed the NAACP’s historic role as not only a vehicle for discussion, but also as a direct agent for action. “We want to use the resources that we have from across the different graduate schools and college to benefit the surrounding communities in need,” Cormier said. Some initiatives include achieving greater diversity amongst university faculty, obtaining free diabetes screenings...
...AIDS within the next decade. The gift from Phillip “Terry” Ragon and his wife, Susan, will create the Ragon Institute—designed to overhaul norms of clinical research by drawing from acclaimed physicians, researchers, and engineers in various fields who have never directly worked in AIDS research before. Harvard Medical School professor Bruce D. Walker, who runs an AIDS clinic in South Africa, will serve as the Institute’s first director. “I was the one who met with Terry and engaged him in a conversation about how transforming...
...insisting that "results" would be the only criterion by which programs were judged. But measuring the effectiveness of programs that receive government money turns out to be a monumental task, and the Bush Administration never did implement a widespread assessment program. In the current economic climate, the pressure to direct taxpayer money to only those programs that actually achieve the desired results will be even greater. But it is still unclear whether DuBois and his staff will be given the resources to carry through on their boss's pledge...
...Congressional staffers who wrote the legislation reject the criticism, arguing that such projects, and the tax cuts and direct state aid that form the bulk of the bill, are necessary to win votes. "If you're the White House, you have two concerns, just like we do," says the Democratic staffer involved in writing the bill. "I want something that's going to fix the economy and I want something that my chairmen say can pass...