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Last week, the national student advocacy group, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, officially released the Philadelphia Consensus Statement on University Policies for Health Related Innovations, which calls upon universities to adopt research and technology transfer policies that promote global health. The growing list of signatories include Harold Varmus and three other Nobel laureates; Paul Farmer, Harvard Medical School (HMS) Professor and Co-Founder of Partners in Health; Jim Kim, Director of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Center for Health and Human Rights and Former Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of HIV/AIDS; and Jeffrey Sachs, Director...
...Chen ’08 is an economics concentrator in Kirkland House. Matthew F. Basilico ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Mather House. Jonathan E. Soverow, a MPH candidate at the School of Public Health, is a member of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. The Philadelphia Consensus Statement is available online at www.essentialmedicine.org/cs.
...Garnett Booth and Mihir Sheth, and sophomore Verdi DiSesa. On the B Team, Harvard competed with sophomore Niko Hrdy, senior Todd Ostrow, sophomore Ned Reeves, freshman Frank Cohen, and senior Brett Auerbach. The A Team finished fifth for the Crimson after losing a second-round match to a strong Philadelphia team made up of professional players. Harvard had advanced easily into the second round by defeating a high school team 5-0. After its loss, the Crimson won its next two matches against two separate Yale squads—the Yale A Team and the Yale Alumni Team...
...ideology of scared media is me-too-ism: straining to show the audience you like what it likes, be it Harry Potter or Donald Rumsfeld. (He's tough! He's funny! He's a sex symbol! The Philadelphia Inquirer dubbed him a "stud muffin.") With the worsening of Iraq, however, coverage became more assertive, and after Hurricane Katrina, reporters found they could question the Administration without being struck dead. With the "civil war" fight--as with erstwhile stud muffin Rumsfeld--the momentum has reversed. It's less important what the press is calling the war than that the White House...
When I told my mom, an ESL teacher at a parochial high school in North Philadelphia, the general outline of the current uproar over Asian Americans and college admissions, she became angry, lifted her voice, and said “This is ridiculous! ‘Over-represented?’ My kids’ parents can’t even speak English! [The kids] work for five or six hours each night in their parents’ stores, and still manage to get all of their homework done by the next day. Without fail. They work harder than anyone...