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...Similarly, Washington is smart to pursue the nearly free lunch that wellness and prevention can provide, but that leaves a lot of medical expense still on the table. For real cost containment to occur there will likely need to be difficult choices made in areas such as end-of-life care, which currently consumes an outsize share of Medicare's budget. It's not politically palatable, but as companies are discovering, healthcare-cost containment is not a job that wins friends...
...never be a bullet point on a list of ways to save money.” Anna Raginskaya ’11, a Pforzheimer resident, stressed that the situation was especially dangerous for female students. “It really puts you in a situation where sexual violence could occur simply because you don’t have the option to go home,” she said. “If Harvard was concerned about the safety of its women, Harvard should make it so that if a girl feels uncomfortable in a situation...
...prospects for a negotiated resolution of Pyongyang's nuclear-weapon and missile programs. On the surface it appears that North Korea is again embarked on a threatening course; it has vowed to continue work on its contested weapons programs. But on closer examination, the North's weapons tests always occur at times of insecurity. Its tough posturing belies the tenuous internal and external circumstances in which it operates...
Harvard will not restrict international travel—including trips to Mexico—in response to the Swine Flu epidemic, University leaders decided last week. “This is a contingent decision, that is, it can change depending on information about events yet to occur,” wrote Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez in an e-mailed statement. “But, given the near end of the academic year, it seemed sensible to reach this decision explicitly.” In the past week, several other colleges and universities, including Yale, have announced...
...ranks of the military. The last such case to gain widespread attention came in 2003, when Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar attacked fellow soldiers in Kuwait as his unit prepared to join the Iraq invasion. Akbar was sentenced to death. The case marked the only one of its kind to occur since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began, until...