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...said professors in a panel at Harvard Law School (HLS) yesterday. Attracting a crowd of around 40 people, three prominent law professors on the panel explored the intersection of law, ethics, and public health in policies to address a public health crisis, such as an avian flu outbreak. David Fidler, a law professor at Indiana University and a past consultant for the World Health Organization, focused on the framing of public health concerns, particularly the spread of pandemics, as national security threats. He said that while linking public health to security may increases the political importance of the former...
...decided to put this off because logistically they were unable to handle a change of this significance,” said Matthew S. Fidler, a GRE programming manager at Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a test preparation company. “The new test will be an hour and a half longer, there will be different question types and content areas, and the test will be more expensive to take...
...Fidler said that those taking the new test will have more time to prepare for the changes, and that the delay in releasing the new test will work to the advantage of students planning to take the GRE in the next year...
...Pushing back the changes is a benefit to students,” Fidler said. “Students have an extra year to take an exam that they are familiar with.” —DINA GUZOVSKY
Stine (Christian Roulleau '01) is a hack writer who churns out detective pulp to feed the studios, living vicariously through his fictional hero and alter ego, the hardboiled gumshoe Stone (Dan Berwick '01). As Stine and his artistic integrity wrestle ineffectually with Buddy Fidler (Kevin Meyers '02), the big cheese at the studio, to produce a ratings safe screenplay, the hapless writer fantasizes by typewriter Stone's life of adventure. The fiction parallels the reality, and the reality is finally defined by the fiction, all in a convoluted but highly enjoyable way. Throughout, a bristling stable of beautiful, gutsy women...