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...curriculum, which covers serious subjects like shaken-baby syndrome and postpartum depression, for the most part steers clear of touchy-feely emoting. But to kick off the class, Dubin asks the men to describe the father figure they grew up with and the kind of dad they'd like to be. Some responses are blunt: "My dad was an a__hole, and I'd rather not be one." But nearly all include a desire to attain the virtues of a decidedly modern man: patience, emotional availability, anger-management and communication skills, and open-mindedness...
...team is more talented up front, and rock solid as ever at the back. "You're looking at a team with five or six guys that are 6 ft. 3 in., 6 ft. 4 in.," says Keller. "They can still be mechanical - we are going to win a free kick - then there's going to be five monsters flying into the box." Pencil in the monsters for the semis...
...like the Italians. Yet Spain's game, says Keller, "is the style of game that everybody wants to see. Everybody has respect for Sweden. But what do you want to watch?" As a goalkeeper, Keller doesn't want to watch Cristiano Ronaldo standing over a free kick, or Ruud van Nistelrooy anywhere near the box. "You don't even know he's there," he says of the Dutch striker. "You turn around and the ball's in the back of the net." And Van Nistelrooy will have Real Madrid teammates Arjen Robben and Wesley Sneijder in support, along with Arsenal...
...others cared at all. I had to kick and scream to get my journalism school to make calls on Mohammed’s behalf. Was I asking the wrong questions, or did nobody really care? What I learned was that there was no safety net in place, no default call to arms that journalists around the world would heed and come to aid a brother. I’ve had to call governments, embassies, Congresspeople, all on my own, and I’m afraid I haven’t done a good enough job as far as Mohammed...
...submitted in November, as a “valiant effort from the entire community.”According to Flier’s presentation, Harvard requested $23 million from the NIH for the CTSC, which it received in full, in addition to the $15 million that the University will kick in from its own funds over the next five years.“In these five years, we want to arm the people who want to do clinical and translational research with the tools, support, and nurturing they need to address diseases,” said Steven D. Freedman...