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...program, and found the conversation “upsetting.” “Cambridge is quite different,” she said. “The fact that we are such a mixed population is going to mean trouble.” Another parent, in favor of IB implementation, defended the measure as a means to stabilize enrollment. “Statistically, our student population is declining in Cambridge,” she said. “We need to do something.” The discussion last night was not the first time the Committee has considered...
...acting parliamentarian, Chinese History Professor Peter K. Bol, before making her pronouncement into the microphone: “no.” “I would like to say that I don’t think that that’s an argument for voting in favor of this motion,” Burgard said. “It seems manifestly clear to me that these meetings will become decidedly less precious opportunities if there are fewer people involved in them,” he continued. “One sixth already strikes me as a small quorum...
...Financial disincentives pose one obstacle to residents considering primary care. Insurance reimbursement is one reason students ignore primary care in favor of pursuing lucrative specialties: A Medicare reimbursement for a 30-minute visit with a primary care physician in Boston is only $103.42, while a colonoscopy requiring the same amount of time reimburses a gastroenterologist $449.44. Costs of running an economically viable primary care practice (especially outside of a hospital, which can recoup losses with expensive procedures or tests) in many parts of the country are also prohibitively expensive. And it is easier to recoup the financial losses of medical...
...similar pattern can be seen in how Keystone Democrats of differing incomes regard the two candidates. Some 55% of white Democrats who make less than $55,000 back Clinton in Pennsylvania, while only 22% in that financial bracket favor Obama. Above $50,000, the state's white Democrats split almost evenly: 45% support Clinton and 41% are backing Obama...
...both candidates will find plenty of reasons in the poll to contest the state right to the end. One in five Pennsylvania Democrats has yet to pick a favorite candidate; and roughly one in six voters who told TIME they favor either Obama or Clinton said they could change their minds in the next two weeks. Notes Stanley Feldman, the SUNY Stonybrook political scientist who analyzed the poll for TIME, "Clinton's six point lead over Obama at this point should not make her very comfortable. There is still plenty of opportunity for Obama to gain the voters he needs...