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While recent turmoil in the capital markets has kept most politicians focused on the state of the economy, the Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism hosted 14 of its fellows Friday for a day-long symposium addressing what is expected be another critical issue for the next administration: immigration. This year’s fellows—who will spend the academic year studying at Harvard as part of the nation’s oldest mid-career fellowship for journalists—attended three different panel discussions of academic and journalistic luminaries, including Patrick J. McDonnell...
...Obama, and University of Chicago economist Tomas J. Philipson addressed the issues of high costs of health care, centralized versus privatized care, and the role that technology can play in improving health care outcomes. Both Cutler and Philipson cited affordability and accesibility as top priorities. Moderated by Petrie-Flom fellow Allison K. Hoffman, the event also featured two panelists: Chicago law professor Anup Malani, who is visiting at the Petrie-Flom center, and James B. Rebitzer, a professor of health care finance at Case Western Reserve University. Cutler and Philipson each made the case for his preferred candidate?...
...reflect the occupants,” explains Hartman. “The people that pass through it would begin to claim the building in a way.”Inside the laboratories, attention to the needs of the scientists and students prevails. D. Allan Drummond, a Bauer Fellow working in the building, says, “The new lab space is gorgeous.”Drummond explains that the new facilities are a significant improvement as they shed an old, peripatetic quality. “The previous labs were designed to be rapidly shifted; they were meant to be mobile...
...incredibly disfiguring experience.”In the process of researching her uncle’s art and history, Robinson discovered that the Factory was plagued with a “sense of fighting and jockeying for position and status.” Interviews with Williams’s fellow Factory fixtures—John Cale of the Velvet Underground, Brigid Berlin, Paul Morrissey, Billy Name, and others—show the bitterness, gossip, and jealousy that characterized the inner workings of Williams’s world. Yet these interviews of elderly, solitary, forgetful...
...will be inclined to agree. Having been embraced as honorary Shi'ites by Tehran, a regime whose survival depends on its maintaining some sort of Islamic credentials, in the face of accusations of heresy and apostasy, needs its relationship with Tehran, and to be seen to be shoring up fellow Shi'ites...