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...Care" [May 29] reported on medical students' learning about the frustrations of the chronically ill. It is clear to anyone with a lick of common sense that doctors who are aware of patients' whole experience are able to provide better care and also save money. The HMO-dominated, profit-driven medical community is blind to the long-term costs of not resolving patients' health issues because it is so overly focused on the cost of a single test...
...Similarly, in your discussion of Ashley Smith, you omit the fact that in addition to sharing insights from The Purpose-Driven Life with Atlanta courthouse murderer Brian Nichols, who took her hostage last year, she also gave him some of her methamphetamine. Isn't that exactly the kind of omission that you would attack a liberal reporter...
...area imaginable. And students take them at their word, throwing massive amounts of time and effort into clubs, teams, and publications. Lewis can’t decide if the prominence of extracurricular life is good or bad. He cedes that extracurriculars teach important skills, but worries that competition-driven undergrads are only adding to their résumés. For my part, I don’t think it’s competition that drives our extracurricular obsessions; I think it’s self-reliance. Emerson argues that we should be judged by the work...
...almost surely lapse without Summers’ guidance, if only to leave room for initiatives by the new president. And some professors say Allston construction may be delayed until donors can be assured of stability at the helm of the University.“The project was very significantly driven by President Summers and unless that push is taken up by [Interim University] President Bok, I’m not sure it can move ahead,” says Professor of the History of Science and Faculty Council member Everett I. Mendelsohn. “It would not surprise...
...back to Cambridge for its 50th reunion this week, many of the old men (and the women of Radcliffe’s Class of 1956) are less than overjoyed with the changes that have taken place. There is grumbling about the fact that Harvard has just lost its president, driven from office for, among other sins, expressing his own ideas about the apparent dearth of women in the ranks of scholars in the sciences. The fact that today’s college administrators, as well as faculty, are at risk of being publicly pilloried by expressing “wrong?...