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Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the online Wayne Palmer resume, however, is the implication that Palmer, despite being a decorated collegiate pitcher coming out of a major conference in the Pac 10, had no professional career, instead joining the Marines and afterwards continuing his education at Yale Law School. (In case you’re wondering, Wayne isn’t the only one with Ivy League ties. Bill Buchanan has a degree in English from Brown—doesn’t strike me as the type—and Karen Hayes went to Princeton...
...decision to leave the Pac-10—a conference that sent four teams to the NCAA tournament—for the Ivy League might have seemed puzzling to some. But the coach’s commitment to excellence on and off the field—his teams achieved the highest overall grade point average of ASU’s 22 varsity squads—made Harvard a natural choice...
...Pac have to go before his time, tell me that...
...responsible for turning these urban docs into developing world saviors is Dr. Mark Kline, director of the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI). An affable, Ed Harris look-alike, Kline is the mind, body and soul of BIPAI. He is responsible for creating the Pediatric AIDS Corps (PAC), an innovative, Peace Corps-like program for U.S. doctors interested in treating children with AIDS in the developing world, where over two million kids are currently living with...
...This year, PAC doctors are deployed to six centers around Africa, and their goal is nothing less than to work themselves out of a job. "The PAC is a bridge program," says Kline. "If we have an American Pediatric AIDS Corps on the ground ten years from now, we haven't done our jobs." Nobody knows better than these doctors themselves that they are only a band-aid, a temporary solution to the more insidious problem of the weak health care system in Africa. The U.S. doctors are charged with treating children urgently in need of ARV care, while...