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...Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center—where more than a third of Harvard’s medical students and residents receive training—remains in dire financial straits and Hyman has said that the University would hope to avert any sale of the hospital to a for-profit company...
...Broad threats in your foreign policy - like the recent leaks from the White House of rogue nations that could be targeted with nuclear weapons - can also complicate a doctrine. Says Hyde: "To threaten dire consequences for any country harboring terrorists is a rallying cry for the faithful, but it can bump into reality and be a lot harder to execute." "That's why it's so important that the President choose his words carefully," says Hagel. "When you talk about using nuclear weapons, that's a new dynamic that most presidents don't talk as openly about. It opens...
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...situation may sound dire, but there are rare examples of professors who break the artificial walls constructed by their departments, and these professors are the truly original minds of the University. Running the risk of appearing overly fawning, one of my current professors, Elaine Scarry, embodies this ideal of reaching across disciplines. Professor Scarry can speak intelligently about Locke’s Second Treatise, and then apply her unique interpretation to Tennessee Williams’ Streetcar Named Desire. She has written articles about the physics of electromagnetic radar and the crashing of planes. She sits on interdisciplinary initiatives like...
...Korea's DMZ, sadly, is a rare example of contemporary man's benevolent effect on cranes. More accurate is the situation in the Amur River border region between Russia and China, where both countries are more than willing to sell their rich natural resources to the highest bidder?with dire consequences for the cranes that dwell in the Amur basin. Matthiessen would stop the course of such progress cold. Yet Russia is desperately poor and China faces serious population pressure. Is it even faintly realistic to expect them to turn off the flow of foreign investment to save a bird...