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...Taring Padi's prime mission is to campaign through art for wage hikes for workers, land rights for indigenous peoples and fairer deals for farmers. Since its establishment after the revolution that swept President Suharto from power in 1998, Taring Padi (the name means "Fangs of the Rice Plant") has produced thousands of banners and posters, mostly by hand. Until the group cobbled together enough money to buy a printing press recently, all works were etched into wood and covered with ink, then manually stamped onto cloth or paper...
...backers, HMI was succeeding spectacularly at the mission, set by founder Medical School Dean Daniel C Tosteson ’46, “to do good by doing well...
...administrators who filled the void, projects like the Dubai Healthcare City—a sprawling partnership between HMI and the Government of Dubai—signalled a worrisome drift in the subsidiary’s mission...
...addition to the fears that HMI’s engagement in health-care consulting was far removed from its research and educational mission, the University’s leaders worried that the organization was diluting Harvard’s zealously-protected brand by transferring its name to hospitals abroad...
...crowning accomplishment—and the embodiment of HMI’s mission gone awry to Mass. Hall leaders—was Dubai Healthcare City, the headline-grabbing agreement between the Emirate and Harvard that the parties inked...