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...hasn't paid dividends. Washington, D.C., attempted to test 450,000 residents in 2006, but the initiative was a flop, reportedly meeting only about 10% of that target. New York's prospects for success may be brighter, partly because New York's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas Frieden, is one of the most effective in the country: under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Frieden has successfully implemented citywide bans on smoking in bars and restaurants and artificial trans fats, and recently got a city law passed to force fast food restaurants to display calorie counts on menus...
...don’t think all the academics in the world could have had much impact on American public opinion,” economics professor Jeffry A. Frieden said. “I don’t think academics matter...
...dinner discussion still remember the tenor of expert opinion before the war. “I came away with the sense that many, if not most, in the room, were skeptical of the Administration’s policies toward Iraq,” economics professor Jeffry A. Frieden wrote in an e-mail recalling that night. But, he wrote, his impression of experts in the room was that “they largely believed that Saddam Hussein did in fact have weapons of mass destruction; and that the invasion would probably succeed in its immediate goals.” Louise...
...Razon said. “I don’t think it’s the university’s place to provide [an outlet for civic engagement], but it’s the university’s place to support it.” Government professor Jeffry A. Frieden echoed Razon’s sentiments. “Members of the university community should be engaged with the surrounding community and in contact with it,” he said. He said he believes that Harvard is foremost a place of higher learning that teaches “students...
...Other names mentioned as possible candidates for the position include Professor of the History of Science Allan M. Brandt, Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum ’69, Stanfield Professor of International Peace Jeffry A. Frieden, and Associate Dean for Computer Science and Engineering Michael D. Smith...