Word: formalisms
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...prejudice medical judgment. “The marketing practices of the industry are dirty and they are influencing medical education in a way that’s not the best for patients,” Bhatt said. According to information released by AMSA, medical schools that have no formal policy-restricting interactions but where “pharmaceutical representatives are not allowed to interact with students according to the administration” received the C+ grade. Of the 116 schools rated, 13 schools were rated higher than HMS, 23 received the same grade, and 80 were given lower ones?...
With the various curricular review reports ostensibly completed, Kirby announces in a letter to professors that the review is moving to a “formal discussion and decision” that could include a vote on general education by the end of the spring 2006 semester. Just one week after the announcement, Kirby resigns under pressure from Summers, setting off a wave of Faculty attacks on Summers that lead to Summers’ resignation in February. Summers’ and Kirby’s resignations, combined with tepid support for the November 2005 report, result in little progress being...
...college. A year later, the church's membership had grown from 35 to nearly 1000. Like many of his denomination, he railed against premarital sex, adultery and drinking - and in 1965, just a few weeks after Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, Falwell delivered a sermon that urged against any formal mixture of politics and faith: "Believing the Bible as I do, I would find it impossible to stop preaching the pure saving gospel of Jesus Christ and begin doing anything else - including the fighting of communism, or participating in the civil rights reform.... Preachers are not called to be politicians...
...comes as the College scrambles to find replacements for current Masters Patricia O’Brien and Joseph L. Badaracco, who are set to step down in June.Some students and residents have expressed disappointment and frustration with the search to find new masters. The College has not appointed a formal advisory committee for the search, but students and residential tutors are informally involved in the process.“We just think that the process was not really taken seriously. Basically, the administration really didn’t care about what students thought,” Omid G. Shahi...
...More than 1,000 diplomats have begun working on a new accord to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The ideas will be put before a larger meeting of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in December in Bali, Indonesia, when U.N. officials hope to launch formal talks on a post-Kyoto treaty...