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Indeed, across the board, costs are going up. And between the millstones of fee-for-service and pressure from insurers to curb all the extra billing, family doctors are being ground into paste. "We've made it systematically as unpleasant to be a PCP as it is to be a primary-school teacher," says Gene Lindsey, president of Atrius Health, a nonprofit alliance of medical providers in Massachusetts. "We're real adept at that...
...recent search to hire a superintendent, Nolan strongly backed Newton schools chief Jeffrey M. Young—and, along with several of her colleagues, stood her ground against the many residents who evidently did not like that he is white and from the suburbs. The experienced and savvy Young possesses both the strong managerial skills of his predecessor, Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, and the grace and consensus-building style of Fowler-Finn’s predecessor, Bobbie D’Alessandro. As Young makes controversial staffing and curricular decisions, as he surely will, it will be important that committee members...
...GROUND GAME...
With rainy conditions throughout the afternoon, the Harvard offense attacked on the ground. Nine players carried the ball a combined 53 times for a total of 267 yards, roughly five yards per carry...
Protecting a lead in the second half, Harvard kept to the ground. In one sequence, the Crimson gave senior running back Cheng Ho carries on 9 consecutive plays. Ho finished with 73 yards on 12 carries. Freshman running back Treavor Scales rounded out the top three rushers with 59 yards on 10 rushes...