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...Harvard Invitational is purely an individual tournament. The results have no impact on the team’s Ivy League or overall record. However, Harvard Coach Gordon Graham believes the tournament may have an indirect effect on the team’s performance in regular season matches...
...terrorist attack has also resulted in calls to lift the longstanding American policy against state-sponsored covert assassinations. A ban on covert assassinations of foreign leaders was first imposed by President Gerald Ford in 1976, and an executive order signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 prohibits direct or indirect involvement in assassinations...
Unlike many universities, Harvard does not own its teaching hospitals, and as a result exerts only indirect control over their activities. HMS administrators said that the relationship hinges on the hospitals’ and the schools’ mutual benefit—HMS needs the hospitals to train its students, the hospitals need the school for the academic credentials it provides and the doctors it can help attract...
Rather than rely on indirect cancer markers like PSA, which have an unacceptably high rate of false positives, Sidransky zeroed in on DNA shed directly from tumors. Many solid tumors, it turns out, result from mutations in stretches of DNA that are repeated several times. Finding these abnormal DNA snippets in urine or saliva could mean a cancer is just beginning to take root. In a small pilot study of bladder-cancer patients, one screen that Sidransky developed picked up more than 90% of tumors--a hit rate that could revolutionize the early detection and treatment of bladder cancer...
...that means the president, except in very indirect ways, really has to basically step aside and allow those people to do the job. And, in that sense, they’re like the deans in every school at Harvard...