Word: jens
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...existence of the disease, only to see the number of infections explode?mistakes that cost the mainland's top health official and the mayor of Beijing their jobs. "Because we had avoided what happened in Hong Kong and China we thought we had avoided an epidemic," says Chen Chien-jen, an epidemiologist who replaced Twu as Health Minister. "But now we have to be humble and admit that perhaps we were careless...
...strain is beginning to show on the face of Chen Chien-jen, the new Health Minister. He says he was "cautiously optimistic" a week ago that the virus could be contained within a month. Now, with a map of Taiwan in his hands that shows victims in every region of the island, he is not so sure. "I can no longer be confident it won't spread farther," he says. "I even had to admit that to my own President." Armed with that information, it may not be too much longer before President Chen, too, is seen wearing a face...
...Jen Mergel: It’s beginning, it’s very possible, and it really can happen. In the position that I’m in now as a resident arts tutor in Adams House, I’ve seen how Houses can address this crunch for the immediate present and the short term until the long-term monorail plans set in. [laughter] It comes down to communication, coordination and flexibility. This year, there was established a network of tutors that began programs of interhouse figure drawing and interhouse exhibitions. It’s an effort that?...
Reff: What we do have are the man hours. Jen, you talked about communication, and figuring out a time schedule that is in some way universal. Space is not only a physical concept; especially at Harvard, space is a people construct in terms of what time and what energy are people devoting and how are they doing it and trying to coordinate it, so that it’s collaborative. It’s working to have some sort of undergraduate arts community...
According to Adams House Arts Tutor Jen Mergel ’98, sufficient display space encourages art making and gives up-and-coming artists valuable practice in exhibiting and curating their work before they enter the real world...