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...Second Opinions Don't Always Add Up Too many physicians are quick to refer patients to yet another doctor instead of doing the heavy lifting themselves. That's not only inefficient ? it's bad medicine
...Summers.It’s a truism that Harvard’s advising—if you can call it that—is in shambles. At long last, Harvard appears to be paying some attention. But the appointment of a dean of advising this spring is a quick fix, a cosmetic solution to a systemic problem. It allows the College to say it is addressing the issue without doing anything fundamental about it.The problem lies deeper. I do not have an adviser. My department, economics, does not assign them to its undergraduates. Instead, there are departmental walk-in advising...
...dean for extensions on my papers, but informed me that I had to get Larry’s approval to do so. I gingerly called his office and talked to his secretary, who said he was very busy that day but that she would try to squeeze in a quick phone call at some point in the day. Five minutes later, Larry was on the phone, and for a few minutes we discussed exactly what I should do, down to the minutiae of when I should ask to turn in each assignment. He could have just told his secretary that...
...when Republican Brian Bilbray - who, as both a former Congressman and a lobbyist, held the two least popular credentials imaginable in 2006 - won by a surprisingly comfortable four-point margin over Democrat Francine Busby, a local school board member, his party was quick to exult. "National Democrats did not discover their shock wave in San Diego," National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Reynolds, who runs the House election effort for the GOP, said in a statement that landed in the e-mail boxes of political reporters shortly after dawn on Wednesday. "National Democrats must come to terms with the fact...
...Democrats were quick to point out that, as victories go, it was an expensive one. "If they have to spend $5 million to defend a seat where the Republicans have such a huge advantage, the question remains whether they will be able to spend that kind of money in 40 or 50 districts," said Bill Burton, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "The Republicans simply do not have the resources to cover the waterfront, if this is what it takes to defend San Diego...