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...panic-stricken behavior makes perfect sense in light of the nation's recent history. Of all of the amazing growth stories in Asia's economic miracle, South Korea's is probably the most miraculous. In a mere generation, the country transformed itself from an impoverished backwater living on American aid to a globally competitive manufacturer of microchips, cars and flat-screen TVs. Any setback to that progress is taken with grave seriousness. During the 1997 crisis, office workers, too ashamed to tell their families they had lost their jobs, donned business suits each morning only to hide...
More commendable than mere success is the ambitious pursuit of excellence above and beyond. It is this energy and drive that Dean Barry R. Bloom has brought to the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) over the past year. Although HSPH has been perennially ranked among the best public health schools in the nation, Bloom still pushed forward a new, more practical curricular component, based on his knowledge of what his students would face when they left school. This curricular revision, which was overseen by a group of the school’s associate deans, shifted the path of study...
...presidential election for the first time since Franklin Roosevelt won it in 1944. Obama also took Pinellas County, which includes Crist's hometown of St. Petersburg. And Obama only lost nearby Sarasota County - which since 1944 hasn't fallen to any kind of Democrat, Yankee or otherwise - by a mere 237 votes...
...students began filtering into the lobby, they instinctively gravitated to the walls, darting unsure glances at each other and bashfully introducing themselves. But mere moments later, three minutes would be all they needed to become more than strangers...
...policies and their refusal to allow people to buy health insurance across state lines has kept prices high. As a result, a health insurance policy that costs less than $1,000 in Kentucky costs over $5,800 in New Jersey. A conservative solution to health care, which extends beyond mere tax exemptions, needs to be articulated...