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...Germans have also shown how effective it can be to allow physicians to compare their performance against their colleagues. The country has the largest database on hospital performance in the world, which helps spread best practice. Such ideas would prove equally effective in the U.S., according to Karen Davis of the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund, but change needs to come at the policy level. "Right now we can see how successful these programs are in places like 
 Germany and Pennsylvania but then doctors and hospitals come back and ask, 'Who's going to pay for it?'," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Lessons from Europe | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...okay, that legitimately makes me hate their stinky Bulldog guts. But other than this glaring malady, what motivates me to hate them with such a passion that I literally get so riled up I break their faces big time every time I’m there? As I will prove in this, my last and final Harvard essay, it is because Yale takes dumps on their own chests. As a result, they smell really bad. As a result of this result, they don’t get chicks (or dudes) and no one hangs out with them. Let me tell...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PARTING SHOT: No Place for Yale In Wally’s World | 5/31/2009 | See Source »

...team—like to get our [stuff] together, basically,” said distance standout and incoming captain Alex Meyer. “A lot of things were not going as smoothly as they should have been.”The Crimson’s real test to prove themselves as a team came during the HYP meet, which pitted the swimmers and divers against their main competition, the Tigers.In contrast to the previous season, this year’s Harvard squad entered the matchup as the underdog instead of the team to beat. But after the first...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Solid Season Doesn’t Live Up to High Expectations | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

...most successful seasons in program history can be both a blessing and a curse. For the Harvard women’s hockey team, which returned 21 players from a squad that made it all the way to the Frozen Four in 2008, the pressure of those high expectations proved to be just a little too much.The Crimson’s up-and-down season, which saw the team rebound from a sub-.500 start to take the ECAC regular-season title, came to a heartbreaking end in the ECAC tournament.Top-seeded Harvard’s semifinal draw was sixth-seeded...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Title Season Ends in Heartache | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

...contests. A sweep of Williams earned the Crimson a No. 4 ranking in its next matchup against No. 8 Dartmouth, who fell by the same 9-0 score. Harvard then hit the road to face No. 7 Cornell and No. 6 Stanford. The Crimson beat them both, 8-1, proving worthy itself of its top-four ranking. Harvard’s first real tests came in the first week of February against three opponents that were seeded higher than the Crimson. “We knew that we were strong going into that week, but we knew [Trinity, Penn...

Author: By Brian A. Campos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Young Crimson Among Best in Country | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

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