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Ironically, a better system to mediate these market failures is one known best to pre-med students: residency matching. After their residency interviews, graduating medical students submit rank-order lists of programs to a centralized matching service, the National Residency Matching Program, which optimizes pairings with the rankings of applicants submitted by individual residency programs. The NRMP utilizes the Gale-Shapley algorithm, introduced to solve the canonical “stable marriage problem.” In this algorithm, pairings between parties are optimized such that all possibility of “infidelity” in matches is precluded...

Author: By Ashin D. Shah | Title: A Second Shot at Summer | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...Melton, a member of Cambridge’s Trinity College, says he prefers Harvard’s newer House system to the more formal Cambridge system, where students were required to wear full gowns in order to attend meals...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Eliot Masters Bring Scientific Expertise | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

Panelists at last night’s event, part of this semester’s Public Service Week at the Kennedy School, also emphasized that organizations must both produce concrete results and energize citizens in order to create long-term programs...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IOP Panel Calls For Risk In Social Programs | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

Extremists within the community, however, can then begin to turn these emotions to the ends of terrorism, usually after an order comes down from insurgents in the mountains to prepare a suicide bomber. There are dozens of these Black Widows in the making at any given time, Yuzik says, so the Moscow subway bombings cannot simply be connected to the death of Abdurakhmanova's husband. Rather, she happened to be at the right point in the process of indoctrination when the order came down. "Once the Islamist community begins insisting you martyr yourself, they do not let up. They will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's 'Black Widows': Terrorism or Revenge? | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...leading practitioner of universal jurisdiction, a legal principle that holds that in crimes of exceptional gravity, the right to render judgment is not limited to the country where the crime was committed. Garzón is seen as a crusading hero by many leftists for using the principle to order the arrest of Pinochet in London in 1998 (the U.K. later refused to extradite him) and to convict Argentine military officer Adolfo Scilingo of crimes against humanity in 2005. Last year, the judge also investigated six officials of President George W. Bush's administration for their alleged roles in what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crusading Judge Faces His Own Trial in Spain | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

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