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...watched the President go through his public paces last week-a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, speeches touting Social Security reform and the Patriot Act-and his stubborn consistency was both admirable and annoying. His unwillingness to drop Social Security reform in the face of lousy polling results is certainly admirable. He has changed the emphasis from semi-privatization of old-age pensions (although he still favors that change) to the solvency of the system, and he has proposed a creative solution, progressive indexing, which would modulate benefits according to income, with the poor receiving proportionately...
...don’t think there’s enough advising for people who want to do something different, like a joint concentration,” Helfman says...
Harvard’s Joint Committee on Inspections (JCI), a monitoring board made up of members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers and led by Corporation Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58, subsequently demanded that Mass. Hall oversee the grant. The resulting five-month delay held up millions of dollars in funding even as 1,000 AIDS-infected patients were awaiting treatment. Up to 400 Nigerians on a waiting list for anti-retroviral drugs died before funding was released in July...
...PetroChina is a subsidiary of the China National Petroleum Corp., a state-owned behemoth that has poured billions of dollars into a joint oil production venture with Khartoum...
...Minhua helped me do auditions for singing groups,” she says. “We discovered there were a lot of common topics between us.” A 23-year-old Leverett resident and joint physics and math concentrator, Mr. Zhang, meanwhile, plotted for a first date—but it was difficult to find time amidst the stresses of freshman year. “We first went out at the end of a very busy Expos paper week. I asked her out in Cabot Science Library and she replied by e-mail later that night...