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...Multinational pharmaceutical companies are out of hand with their pricing. While it is acceptable that they should make a reasonable profit, they have gone beyond that in what they charge in the U.S. Some of their profit margins reveal their obscene greed. Why do medications cost 77% more in this country than they do in Canada? We have the best politicians money can buy. Phyllis Ray, GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Gore Get on the Trail? | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...institute in Dubai is run by Harvard Medical International, a non-profit subsidiary whose goal is not to build Harvard infrastructure internationally, but rather to build global healthcare infrastructure, says Amanda Pullen, a vice president at Harvard Medical International...

Author: By Madeline W. Lissner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Going Global: Harvard’s Stamp Abroad | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

Gates is a major Harvard donor and primary benefactor of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest philanthropic organization in the world. With $33.4 billion, the foundation oversees the largest endowment any non-profit organization, surpassing even Harvard?...

Author: By Robert J. Prior, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard To Confer 6,871 Degrees | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...since come to embrace her name and the cultural identity attached to it. Leng, known as “Tech” among her friends, will travel to Cambodia next year under the George Peabody Gardner fellowship. Her tentative plans involve working for a non-profit to provide urban women the “entrepreneurial tools” to market the silk-weaving they produce, Leng says. Her post-graduate goals reflect two interests deepened at Harvard: her Cambodian heritage and public service. Leng, whose family—parents and 40 relatives—moved to Massachusetts a year before...

Author: By Joshua P. Rogers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Techrosette Leng | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...sketch of Osama bin Laden was for sale on murderauction.com. The starting bid was $399, but so far the Canadian seller nicknamed "Redrum" - murder spelled backwards - has yet to sell the crudely drawn portrait. "It would be worthless without Malvo's name on it," Kahan says. "It is profit from ill-gotten notoriety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking Down on "Murderabilia" | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

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