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...community. Professor Yasushi, the sociologist who arranged the Food Symposium, has been closely working with Dean of Freshman Thomas A. Dingman ’67 to create a more integrated campus for first-years. Food, Professor Yasushi seemed to believe, had the power to unite. He hoped that establishing a version of the Food Literacy Project at the University of Tokyo would help establish that sense of community. I can’t argue with the fact that food is intimately linked to the rhythms of daily life. I also can’t refute the fact that extra attention...
...Those principles are similar to the ones the FDIC worked out for the 60,000-odd bad home loans it took on when it closed IndyMac, a failed California bank, last summer. Bair outlined her proposal in testimony on Oct. 23 before the Senate Banking Committee. "The government could establish standards for loan modifications and provide guarantees for loans meeting those standards," she said. "By doing so, unaffordable loans could be converted into loans that are sustainable over the long term." At the same hearing, Neel Kashkari, the acting assistant Treasury Secretary in charge of the $700 billion bailout package...
...Systems (HCAHPS), was created by a public-private partnership including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the federal government's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. It was conducted in about 60% of all U.S. hospitals between July 2006 and June 2007 and designed to help administrators establish appropriate hospital policies while arming health consumers with the tools to pick the best care providers...
...commissioner David Stern hired Johnson, who retired this spring as the second-highest-ranking engineer in the Army, for his management experience, not his ability to distinguish a charge from a blocking foul. "I've got some work to do to establish some credibility," Johnson, 54, admits. "But let me say something: credibility in this position has nothing to do with my ability to be an expert referee. I believe that in my heart." Johnson insists that he's used to learning on the fly. "Throughout my Army career, I've been promoted and moved around a lot, and never...
...vote in your election because it affects my life,’” he said. Suskind said that the goal of his book was to cut through the secrecy and message discipline that has defined the Bush administration’s relationship with the media and establish the truth of how the newly unified world we live in operates. “What is real is like nectar,” Suskind said, “and how do we arrive at evidence that alters our assumptions and helps us access the world...