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Despite its prominence in the realm of higher education and in the world of public policy, the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) will soon grapple with severe financial problems. Last week, Dean of the Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye announced that the school anticipates an estimated $3 million deficit—almost 3 percent of its operating budget...
...Here in the U.S., where such nightmare black market scenarios thankfully remain in the realm of fiction, the money issue does have the potential to underscore the already painful divide between the country?s haves and have-nots. "The danger some people see in compensating survivors is the concern that it would have much more of a negative impact on a poor family than on a wealthy family," says Dr. Howard Brody, professor of family practice at the Center for Ethics and Humanities at Michigan State University. "People worry that we?ll end up taking organs from the poor...
...grave with a “dead hand” (“mortmain”). The landowners complained bitterly of losing “the services which are due of such fees,” which after all were provided “for the defense of the realm.” And in 1279, King Edward I consented to the Statute of Mortmain, which forbade religious institutions from acquiring any land from a tenant without the lord’s permission...
...Lark, there's a character who says she will never be the artist she was as a child. I have very much that same feeling: that the ability to take something banal or simple and make it into something else is a skill that is in the realm of childhood...
...James Natchwey and Anthony Suau, among others. The movie is grainy, mainly showing markets and minarets, the photos sharp, concentrated on war and refugees. Though separated by decades, and light years of technological advances, there is a sense of sameness in the images. Afghanistan appears as a dusty realm of bearded men in turbans, overladen donkeys, women hidden from view in the background, children with eyes that have seen too much. Fortunately, the rest of the exhibition helps to alleviate this dispiriting impression...