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Former Provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67 has been appointed the seventh president of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a branch of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) that advises the federal government on health policy issues...
...created by NAS in 1970 to enlist members of the health professions in examining health policy issues. It currently has 1,429 members, including Fineberg...
...nominated for the job by the IOM Council, the institute’s 20-member governing board, and appointed by NAS President Bruce Alberts, who is also a member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers, the University’s second-highest governing body...
...standard that has been performed by Billie Holiday, among others. The lyrics capture the gritty romance of Manhattan life: "Glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel/ They're making me feel I'm home." Lyrical portraits of New York aren?t always pretty. In 1994, the rapper Nas released a song titled "NY State of Mind" with lyrics that go "I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death... I think of crime when I'm in a New York state of Mind." Not exactly a tourist slogan. The tradition of documenting New York in song continues...
...city?s recent history. Already, New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen has written a song that deals with the recent attacks that Latin pop crooner Marc Anthony, a native New Yorker, may record for his new album. In 1994, on his song "NY State of Mind," the rapper Nas rapped "nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind." His words still ring true...