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Ironically, a better system to mediate these market failures is one known best to pre-med students: residency matching. After their residency interviews, graduating medical students submit rank-order lists of programs to a centralized matching service, the National Residency Matching Program, which optimizes pairings with the rankings of applicants submitted by individual residency programs. The NRMP utilizes the Gale-Shapley algorithm, introduced to solve the canonical “stable marriage problem.” In this algorithm, pairings between parties are optimized such that all possibility of “infidelity” in matches is precluded...
...native of Montreal, Rosengarten earned his Bachelor of Engineering in 1966 at McGill University—a top-tier university in Quebec known in jest as the “Harvard of the North...
Melton has extensive experience working with students in his laboratory, from thesis advising to writing medical school recommendations. He also teaches mainly undergraduate courses, including the popular bioethics course co-listed as Government 1093 and Life Sciences 60, which he co-teaches with Harvard Professor Michael J. Sandel, well-known for teaching Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice...
This applies in particular to the terrorists known in Russia as the Black Widows, a name that plays on their alleged desire to avenge the deaths of their husbands (or other relatives) at the hands of Russian security forces working in the North Caucasus. In recent years, they have taken part in several vicious attacks in Moscow, including the bombings of two passenger planes in 2004 that killed 89 people. Abdurakhmanova, named by police as one of the two suicide bombers who struck the Moscow subway system on March 29, killing at least 40 people, seems to fit the mold...
...world's most renowned judges has just landed on the other side of the bench. Spanish National Court magistrate Baltasar Garzón, best known for ordering former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's arrest and extradition for crimes against humanity, was indicted Wednesday by his own country's Supreme Court. Charged with knowingly overreaching his jurisdiction when he opened an investigation into another dictator's crimes - in this case, Spain's Francisco Franco - Garzón has been suspended from his job while he awaits the start of his criminal trial...