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Depending on where the senator's tumor is located, Kennedy could expect to return to near-normal functioning. If the lesion is in a location where surgeons can remove it easily, then he has a good chance of controlling the cancer with additional chemotherapy and radiation. "I have patients 20 and 30 years out from diagnosis, and they are functioning normally and doing well," says Brem. "We hope that Senator Kennedy becomes one of them...
Palfrey said that he does not expect to see much change at the Berkman Center, as the core faculty members will continue to teach and the students involved in the clinical programs will continue to learn...
...from a head wind to a cross tail. For our race [the 1V] we launched about 45 minutes before the race and we had no idea what the conditions were going to be. It was a little bit stormy, but it was typical Camden you-never-know-what-to-expect conditions. It ended up starting to rain and pouring by the end of our race. This is something that you have to be prepared for and the thing about racing is that you’re not the only boat out there; everyone deals with it so it really doesn?...
...varsity boat is now looking towards IRAs,” Kharrazi said. “We have now less than three weeks and we expect more competition to come. There’s Stanford, Bucknell, and there will be others as well who didn’t race at Eastern sprints. We’ve been racing top quality competition, but there’s more where that came from. Going into IRAs we have not very much time to prepare but a very big competition ahead of us. We’re definitely going to be looking to find...
...Although Greenspan’s analysis referred specifically to financial markets, it also restates a valuable historical lesson about politics: If we expect what is reasonable, we will be disappointed. At least in the financial world, models are more helpful, because despite the inexistence of a homo economicus, most people in most circumstances are driven by profit maximization. They may not know how to achieve it at all times, but they always want better results for their portfolios. When it comes to politics, however, for better or for worse, motivations more often transcend rational concerns...