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...move comes in the midst of efforts to coordinate the Harvard affiliated hospitals by reducing overlap of services. In this case, however, Massachusetts General Hospital will begin duplicating Brigham services when it starts delivering babies next year...
Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences John E.Dowling '57, a continuing member of the Appiahcommittee, said the FRRAC has not yet met. He saidhe is in favor of the new streamlining ofcommittees. "Consolidation made sense," he said."There was overlap in terms of what [the formercommittees] were doing...
Basketball is a team sport, but Michael Jordan often played it as if he were all alone. Call it genius or call it selfishness -- the two traits often overlap -- but Jordan sometimes seemed to resent the fact that he had four teammates on the floor with him. His talent was so singular that he was often competing only against himself, against the memory of his last impossible dunk, his last acrobatic steal, his last whizzing cross-court assist. And in the end, that kind of competition bored...
...recent ruling, the Federal Appeals Court sent the case back to the lower court, urging the judge to examine the argument that the social benefits of the overlap policy outweighed its anticompetitive nature. Consorting annually about financial aid, then, might not violate anti-trust laws. But the real significance in this case lies not in the final verdict, but in what it implies about the financial aid system...
While there is a strong argument for equalizing financial aid--why should a prospect become more needy at one school than another, given relatively equal tuition?--the practice of admissions "overlap" is a dubious one at best. Whether or not MIT took part in "price fixing," the financial aid system as it now stands encourages a flagrant excess of academic recruiting...