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...been working with the Global Health and Aids Coalition to invite Haven on campus to speak for their Global Health Day, on Wednesday, April 6th. According to Alyssa T. Yamamoto '12, an assistant director of IRoC, Harvard Medical School professor Jim Yong Kim had recently met with Haven's PR person, and the actor expressed his interest in creating "some sort of bond between celebrities and academia...
...Jolie (and the children, perhaps?) are expected to be there as well. Organizers of the event thought that they might as well try to have Brangelina speak in a panel event if they were going to show up, but the discussion has reached a stalemate with the people in PR, Yamamoto said...
...Shuffle design certainly hasn't won universal praise, with some calling the design changes "needless." But astute observers notice that the Shuffle isn't entirely buttonless. They've simply been moved to a new set of Apple proprietary headphones, required to use the device. (Notice how well Apple's PR photo hides that fact?) Users wanting to use their own existing headphones will have to purchase a special adapter cable. If Apple didn't have such a vindictive history against buttons, it would be easy to write off the new "buttonless" Shuffle as a marketing ploy...
...passive and less of an enterprising investigator of the candidates than it once was," singling out The Washington Post for running 10 fewer in-depth candidate profiles during the 2008 presidential election than it did in 1992. The report spreads the blame around, though, observing that cutbacks and increasingly PR-savvy campaigns have also hurt the profession: "Most of what we know about the new president came from his campaign rather than from media enterprise...
...proven track record in economic issues. "Mr Guttenberg's biggest challenge is how to develop concepts to deal with the recession. Up until now, the Economics Ministry has failed to do this," Gustav Horn, the director of Duesseldorf's Macroeconomic Policy Institute says. "Mr Guttenberg is a good PR man - he's not an economic policy expert. The minister will have to decide what to do with the ongoing economic crisis and he's bound to come under growing pressure to introduce another fiscal stimulus package...