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...away every day.” The CHA announced that it would be closing the senior health center earlier this year amid budget woes that precipitated the layoffs of 300 alliance employees beginning in the summer of 2008. In October, the Massachusetts state secretary of health and human services informed the CHA that the state was cutting the network’s budget by $55 million during the 2009 fiscal year. According to an e-mailed statement from CHA spokesman Doug Bailey, 1,730 patients use the clinic at the Oliver Farnum Senior Center, and CHA has been contacting them...
...strengthen its relationships with other grant-giving bodies, such as the Harvard Foundation, Office for the Arts, and Phillips Brooks House Association to ease student access to Harvard’s many resources. Finally, the UC must prioritize clear communication and simplify avenues for grassroots student input to better inform sensible, productive change in policy and procedure...
...first-year UC campaigns came to ape their Washington counterparts. Candidates, concerned with distinguishing themselves from a large pool, seemed to lose focus on what was important or relevant to the position they sought. Instead, they resorted to provocative slogans and ploys that served more to distract than to inform...
...Competition did become intense earlier this fall as it is now, and students new and old can’t be blamed for trying their hardest to succeed in their activities. But we may allow the lessons of the freshman campaigns to inform our vote for president. The campaign that takes its time to develop serious and innovative ideas for the UC might not be the most glamorous or funniest one. But it is the one most deserving of our attention and our vote. After all, Washington may be a long way off, but the road starts here...
...Does your medical training inform your writing in any way? Not that I'm aware of, frankly. Part of the attraction of writing when I was in practice was that it was such a radically different undertaking than medicine, which is very regimented and straightforward. I guess the only thing I would say is, both as a writer and as a doctor, especially in primary care, you have to have a sense of people. It doesn't hurt to have some kind of understanding of why people behave the way they do, what motivates them, what they're afraid...