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...meeting took an unexpected turn when cardiologist Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic made a motion for a black box warning. Dr. Nissen, who was among the early warners on the risks of the now-withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx, was concerned that the 25 cases might be just the tip of an iceberg. "There's no mandatory reporting of these cases," he says. He notes that the stimulants in question are known to raise blood pressure and heart rate. "Raising blood pressure of a child or adult continuously over many years worries me," Nissen told TIME. "There is a linear...
...assignment tonight will be to bottle up Tigers senior guard Scott Greenman, who scored a career-high 27 points in a win over Yale last weekend to earn Ivy Player of the Week honors.Housman received a crash course this week in the vagaries of Princeton’s infamous motion offense, a complicated network of cuts that Greenman has been indoctrinated in for four years. “[Greenman’s] the one that understands their offense the best, and Drew’s the one that understands their offense the least out of us,” senior...
...adding a no-confidence motion to the Feb. 28 Faculty meeting’s agenda, Judith Ryan, the Weary professor of German and comparative literature, is using a tactic from parliamentary systems and applying it to Harvard governance. But if Harvard were to follow parliamentary confidence-vote procedures to their full extent, then Ryan’s motion could cause the dissolution of the Faculty itself. In the United Kingdom and other parliamentary democracies, prime ministers who lose no-confidence votes have two options. “A government cannot operate effectively unless it can command a majority within...
Judith Ryan, who is the Weary professor of German and comparative literature, said tonight that she is placing the motion on the agenda for the Feb. 28 session. Summers lost a similar no-confidence vote last March by a 218-185 margin...
Summers' spokesman, John Longbrake, declined to comment on Ryan's motion tonight...