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...Other sacred cows will need to be challenged. India's old socialist system may have had its problems, says Imrana Qadeer, one of India's foremost public-health experts, but the belief that private enterprise can cure all of India's woes is dangerously misguided. "The private sector doesn't want to do basic things like treating diarrhea, improving nutrition, immunizing babies because that's not where the money is," says Qadeer. "In India we cannot live without a strong public sector...
...Harvard student, the one who cures rare diseases and can whip up a mean soufflé—or, in Redman’s case, solves the world’s social problems and plays a mean saxophone. Now, he is one of the world’s foremost jazz musicians, with a style that is at once poised and loose, technically excellent and creatively free. But technique and creativity haven’t always been easy for Redman to reconcile.While he was an undergraduate at Harvard, Redman led a double life. There was Redman the Phi Beta Kappa...
...which they discussed Boston, Harvard, and sustainability. Three green politicians gave presentations, and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and University President Drew G. Faust both made remarks. The problem of climate change is a concern to all of us, and Boston and Harvard should first and foremost be commended for arranging this event. Both Menino’s and Faust’s speeches were particularly illuminating—Menino’s, because he presented the truly commendable and concrete effort that the city of Boston has made to “green” itself, and Faust?...
...Full House” and “E.T.” But my mind quickly turns to the ugly realities that emerged as silly catchphrases and smiling baby teeth faded into adolescence and adulthood. The list of successes becomes a list of bloody defeats.First and foremost, take River Phoenix. Discovered by Burton, he was a child star in the mid-80s—you may remember him as Young Indy in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” In 1993, at age 23, River died of a heroine and cocaine overdose outside...
...alert! Am I calling on the networks to act in the name of mere cosmetic appearance? Yes! News anchors are--more than any profession outside of car-show modeling--about cosmetic appearance. Yes, they need news chops, but they are hired, foremost, literally to be the face of a news division. Diversity is no more superficial a goal than gravitas, which apparently derives from the Latin for "white dude...