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Demetri said yesterday that the grants are significant because they afford scientists a relatively high degree of freedom.“We have the option to drive the focus of the research,” Demetri said. He said he is most interested in developing new cancer drugs and targeting “signaling pathways that go awry” in cancer patients...

Author: By Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dana-Farber Cancer Center Snags $20 Million Grant | 11/15/2006 | See Source »

...spring, though, was Cusworth’s alone. By choosing the latter, the center would have been able to compete in the most crucial section of Harvard’s schedule, the last 10 Ivy League contests, including all four games against twin terrors Penn and Princeton. The former option would afford him the ability to play in 18 out of the team’s 28 games, and maintain the continuity of going through preseason activities. “I’ve been receiving a lot of flak for choosing the first semester,” Cusworth says...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '06: Curtain Call | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...year, good for third most on the team. He could play shut-down defense, and was routinely assigned to stifle the opposing teams’ top scoring threats.This year, there is no sure thing at the three spot for Sullivan—just a lot of options.One of those options is sophomore Andrew Pusar, who saw only limited action last year. Think Beal, but three inches shorter and fifteen pounds lighter. A forward in a guard’s body, Pusar plays what Sullivan has referred to as “a junkyard-kind of game...

Author: By Loren Amor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '06: Three’s a Crowd | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

Edwards and Gates are at the cutting edge of an effort to overcome that dilemma by providing universities with a third option: strings-attached grants from nonprofit organizations focused on developing-world diseases...

Author: By Nicholas M. Ciarelli and Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: A New Deal On Lifesaving Drugs | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

...Robert Gates joins the Bush cabinet as the replacement for outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, he can be expected to urge President Bush to talk to the leaders of Iran - an option Bush has thus far avoided. Gates made his own views on Iran policy known in mid-2004, when he joined Zbigniew Brzezinski - President Carter's National Security Advisor - in chairing a task force of scholars who issued a report titled "Iran: Time for a New Approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Robert Gates Sway the Iran Debate? | 11/9/2006 | See Source »

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