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...danger of parochial belief in what the Harvard student should be. The College prides itself on the breadth and depth of its student body, and, in attracting our generation’s best and brightest, strives to develop those students that they may become leaders and engineers of worldwide progress. As I understand, Dean Fitzsimmons and his staff set about each year to assemble a class of individuals. Harvard could easily fill its ranks with valedictorians or 1600s (apologies, 2400s). It deliberately chooses not to do so because such a class would not serve the University or each other well...
Should self-regulation by hospitals fail to make further progress, there is certainly an alternate possibility: in the U.K., by law, residents work no more than 13 hours per day and 58 hours per week. While we understand the need for intensive training for our next generation of doctors, it shouldn’t be so intensive that they injure their patients, or themselves, in the process. We echo Landrigan’s suggestions that hospitals must commit more resources and energy to reducing the load on their first-year residents, and if hospitals are unable to comply with...
...scant has the Iraqi government's progress been toward reversing the country's negative slide that senior U.S. officials are reportedly now expressing doubts that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki can get the job done. But how likely is it that anyone else could do better? There's no longer anything on the event horizon to suggest any prospect of imminent turnaround. Previously, U.S. officials could reinforce the Bush Administration's "stay the course" message by pointing to forthcoming handovers of power or elections, the creation of a national unity government or the killing of the terrorist Zarqawi as potential...
...President Abbas is committed to peace, and to his people's aspirations for a state of their own. Prime Minister Olmert is committed to peace, and has said he intends to meet with President Abbas to make real progress on the outstanding issues between them. I believe peace can be achieved, and that a democratic Palestinian state is possible. I hear from leaders in the region who want to help. I've directed Secretary of State Rice to lead a diplomatic effort to engage moderate leaders across the region, to help the Palestinians reform their security services, and support Israeli...
...very Arab moderates on whose behalf President Bush claims to be fighting are often among the strongest critics of his policies, warning that by pursuing democracy through military action, the U.S. may be breeding more extremism than progress. There's also the delicate matter of accepting democracy's outcome when it goes against U.S. preferences. Although the Administration has done that in Iraq - supporting an elected government closer to Iran than it is to Washington - in the Palestinian territories it initially did just the opposite, seeking to overthrow the newly elected Hamas government though a financial blockade. Bush's suggestion...