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...beginning of November, women will be able to call a toll-free number to obtain information or set up appointments for a wide variety of clinical services at a single site, a service the center calls "one-stop shopping...
...Pennsylvania, which reported a $40 million deficit this year. Much of the money for the expansion comes from borrowing--$280 million. But Snyderman is convinced that growth will pay off, in no small part by making Duke the hospital of choice for enough patients and doctors that it can obtain more favorable contract terms from HMOs for patient care. "What we need is sufficient market clout that we cannot be rolled over," he says...
Despite his early call to duty, Hassan, 51, managed to obtain a formidable education. That was a privilege denied Hussein, who was proclaimed King at age 16 after his father Talal, was dethroned because of mental illness. In the absence of Talal--hospitalized in Istanbul, where he died in 1972, Hussein took on a paternal role in the life of Hassan, who was only five when their father departed. Hussein sent Hassan to England's prestigious Harrow School and then to Oxford University's Christ Church College, where he received a B.A. and an M.A. in oriental studies, specializing...
...Boston public schools could definitely use some great minds. There is a brain drain in our nation, and Harvard students could do a great deal to alleviate that...In general the great minds of our nation are drawn to more lucrative careers...Instead, I wish that students who obtain world class educations, like the one Harvard offers, would consider sharing their mental wealth with the next generation...
...every stage of their careers here, students are encouraged to take ethically ambiguous steps to obtain whatever scarce resources Harvard has to offer. We have in many ways created for ourselves a culture that tolerates certain classes of amorality. Harvard's official selection processes are a joke--lotteries and sectioning forms are of questionable fairness and regrettable bureaucracy. You deserve your place among the elect, but the system just is not set up to recognize your virtues. So on the one hand, there is nothing wrong with a little flexibility in describing your qualifications, so long...