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...Medical School employs 110 custodial workers, according to Richard M. Shea, an associate dean of planning and facilities. 77 of those workers are on the direct payroll and 33 are subcontracted through the American Cleaning Company...
...Catholics especially, including many prominent bishops, have questioned the judgment of the university administration to invite the president, whose policy positions and many recent enactments directly oppose the Church’s essential teachings. The president had signed executive orders releasing a ban on funding abortions abroad and reversing the Bush administration’s refusal to subsidize embryonic stem-cell research. These two questions of abortion and stem-cell research—on which the Church and the White House are in direct opposition—are the political issues that the American episcopacy had singled out, both before...
...back of Queen Elizabeth II as the two chatted at a reception. Etiquette is quite stern about this ("Whatever you do, don't touch the Queen!"). In 2000 John Howard, then Prime Minister of Australia, got plenty of criticism for apparently putting his arm around the Queen to direct her through a crowd. He denied actually touching her, but photographs suggest that he came quite close. (Another former Australian Prime Minister did put his hand on the Queen in a similar circumstance and was later branded "the Lizard...
...Central to its mandate, the TDAF actively seeks out and solicits proposals from the faculty that have a direct bearing upon neglected diseases endemic to the developing world. For example, as a result of TDAF funding, a faculty member at the Harvard School of Public Health has been able to advance his efforts to develop new drugs against tuberculosis, a neglected disease that remains a major threat to public health...
When the Crimson takes on Holy Cross in its home opener this afternoon, the Crusaders will be hoping to slow down a Harvard offense that has been producing runs almost at will. When they do, there is little doubt where they will direct their attention; the focus will be on two seniors who have had an incredible first half of the season...