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Today Grove has returned to New York because City College's school of engineering is being renamed in his honor, in recognition of his achievement--and his $26 million donation. Later in the day, Grove gives a more formal lecture in a cathedral-style space in which he says the country's most pressing problems require more than just incremental improvements. That's particularly true in health care, with 46 million uninsured Americans, skyrocketing costs and an aging population. What's needed, he says, is "disruptive technologies" like unified electronic medical records, which can eliminate the grossly inefficient paper bureaucracy...
Player to Watch: Zak DeOssie. All-Ivy pick looks to be second straight Bear to nab Player of the Year honor...
...It’s an honor, the fact that we only have one captain,” Tully says. “You’re kind of the face of the team…you kind of take things to the coach, you’re kind of in the middle between the team and the coaches. You represent both sides...
...obviously bittersweet after losing a guy like Matt, who was great for this team,” Tully says. “I kind of saw myself taking a leadership role with the team, even if Matt was still here. It’s an honor to have the title now, but it really hasn’t changed a whole lot of what I planned on doing...
...Hamas militants are willing to bend, slightly. Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh said that while Hamas would never openly recognize Israel (the militants' credo, in fact, vows to destroy the Jewish state), Hamas would be willing to sign a truce with Israel lasting up to 10 years and honor past peace accords that Palestinians signed with Israel. While prospects for changing Hamas's position as a movement are slim, Abbas is hoping to persuade it to make a de facto gesture of recognition by joining a government that accepts previous Palestinian agreements with the Jewish state. The U.S. and Europe have...