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...some 5,000 community hospitals, but dozens more are in the works since Congress this summer lifted a three-year moratorium on Medicare payments to new specialty hospitals. These typically focus on orthopedic and cardiac surgeries--which account for more than half the profits of many hospitals--and most lack costly emergency rooms. As these and other doctor-owned facilities spread and tensions soar, hospitals are finding it harder to get specialists on call in their ERs, reports HSC researcher Dr. Robert Berenson in a study published on the Web this week by Health Affairs...
...online, centralizing electronic resources students have already paid for. This demonstration is the start of an effort to put all course packs online by study card day next semester. We fully expect Hadfield and Goldenberg will bring this same ingenuity to other problems they plan to tackle, including the lack of accountability in teaching quality and financial security for student groups.While the UC must, of course, continue to work with the administration, it relies on too narrow a range of advocacy techniques. There is a place for meeting with deans and writing position papers, but petitions, rallies, letter writing campaigns...
Sahil K. Mahtani’s column titled “The University Is a Drama Queen” (December 1) provides a refreshing perspective on the military’s relation to Harvard—or lack thereof. Like Mahtani, I certainly object to the military’s discriminatory policies and agree that they need reform, but breaking all ties with our nation’s system of defense is not the answer. It is much easier to change an organization from the inside out. If Harvard is not producing any substantial number of military recruits, then...
...There was also much scrutinizing of jargon. Justice Antonin Scalia questioned the districts' use of the terms "segregation" and "racial isolation." "If you belong to a country club that has 15% black members, I would not consider that a segregated country club," he said. "You're complaining about a lack of racial balance...
...miles away from Europe is a more troublesome proposition. It isn't simply a question of resources: Canada is on the front line despite an anemic defense budget. For all the lip service paid to Afghanistan as a war that cannot be lost, there seems to be a lack of political will to do what is necessary...