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...past 25 years. "It signals a big shakeup," says Jean-Raphael Alventosa, a budget expert at the Cour des Comptes, the national accounting office, which will get more clout. Even France's love affair with hugely expensive - but glorious - infrastructure projects is changing: the Millau viaduct, the world's highest road bridge that opened last year, was entirely financed by the private company that built it. In the past, the French state would have automatically footed the bill...
Doctors will argue privately that there is not enough watchful waiting and re-examination anymore, partly because patience literally doesn't pay. "The areas in the U.S. with the highest rates of use of hospital beds, intensive-care units, specialist consultations and invasive testing don't have the best quality of care and outcomes," says Berwick. "In fact, they often have the worst. It would be a great advance in both quality and cost if somehow the American public came to understand that 'more care' is not by any means always 'better care,' and that new technologies and hospital stays...
Corey M. Rennell ’07 will soon boast more than climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, and surviving anthrax contracted from a sheep as among his feats. Rennell will be one of six participants in an upcoming reality TV show produced by BBC and The Discovery Channel. Rennell said he will receive $10,000 for participating in the program. Rennell was one of over 100 Americans who applied for the show, according to Louisa M. Griffith-Jones, associate producer for the BBC. The program will feature three American and three British male athletes who will spend...
...curricular review reports present no evidence that Harvard students are too narrowly educated or are becoming overspecialized. In fact, our broadly educated students welcome the challenge to compete at the highest level of their academic specialties. Those passionate ambitions seem strongest in our hungriest students, the ones eager to transcend the social and economic disadvantages to which they were born. They seek excellence because they seek success, and they welcome disciplined training that guides them toward those goals...
...time on the Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—Stone served on the search committee that named Neil L. Rudenstine to be Harvard’s 26th president in 1991. And he led the panel that ultimately picked Lawrence H. Summers as its 27th...