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Students crowded into corridors of the Center for Population and Development Studies yesterday to hear Presley Professor of Social Medicine Paul Farmer discuss his pioneering model for treating infectious diseases in developing countries. A captivated audience listened as Farmer, an internationally acclaimed physician and public health activist, explained how his HIV Equity Initiative is expanding its prevention and care programs to impoverished rural communities to Rwanda. The intiative, which is part of Farmer’s “Partners in Health” charity, was the first program in the world to offer free antiretroviral therapy and has been...
...executive director of the Cambridge Arts Coalition, Jason Weeks, said that their program that sponsors street performers in the Square is a national model for urban arts projects...
...Back then, Bettie Page was caviar only to the purchasers of girlie mags, tatty titles like Titter, Whisper and Wink, where she was the preeminent pinup queen of her day, maybe any day. (She was also the 13th model to grace the centerfold of a new slick magazine called Playboy.) As a movie actress she had a different appeal, limited but intense. Bettie was rich Corinthian leather to connoisseurs of specialized, and at the time subterranean, erotica - the kind that showed women, dressed in black undergarments and stockings, and pumps with six-inch heels, getting spanked, trussed and gagged...
...provisions for the care of faculty members’ children do not compare favorably to those made by other schools.She cites MIT as one school with more daycare centers at closer proximity to professors’ offices, what Martin refers to as “more of the corporate model.”Professor of English and American Literature and Language Elisa New says that younger, untenured faculty members—both men and women—who have children are at a “distinct disadvantage” compared with incoming senior faculty and their families because...
...office space between these light-permeable pieces of plastic. Some of the office assignments have an air of hilarity. From them, you can almost reconstruct what must have been agonizing discussions by the committee charged with divvying up Hilles’ offices. Perhaps Harvard’s World Model United Nations and International Business Club—which share the same office—will join forces to embezzle profits from a model Oil-for-Food program. The Society for Creative Anachronism shares space with Harvard’s anime and sci-fi clubs, a fact that is funny only...