Word: recommenders
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...says “Psychiatrists don’t often talk about it because people consider it a brutal treatment, but people don’t understand that the treatments are not painful...If I had a treatment-resistant family member with severe depression, I would not hesitate to recommend ECT.” ECT isn’t confined in the troubled wards of “Girl, Interrupted”—and it isn’t nearly as shocking as it first seems...
...thought Harvard students should replace their workouts with mindfulness exercises when the MAC closes for a 6 to 8-month rennovation on March 19th, instead of making the trek to alternative venues such as Hemenway Gymnasium or Blodgett Pool, Steplyk said, “I wouldn’t recommend it.” But Langer says that if a person truly believes what he or she is doing is exercise, the benefits will ensue, even if that exercise consists of lifting a remote control while sitting on a couch. “If people can fully persuade themselves that...
...more time in completing the search if it still has yet to gain the unanimous approval of its members. In order to appoint a new president, the six members of the panel who hail from the University’s executive governing board, the Harvard Corporation, must make a recommendation to the Board of Overseers, the less powerful alumni body. The recommendation is then put to a vote among the 30 overseers. Three overseers serve on the search committee with the six Corporation fellows. Yesterday’s meeting came just days after Thomas R. Cech, a Nobel laureate...
...committee demonstrates a willingness to reopen the search to other candidates, such as Provost Steven E. Hyman and Law School Dean Elena Kagan, it may make it hard to recommend Faust as the clear top choice—even if she is currently the committee’s preferred candidate—the sources said...
...independent counsel was inevitable. During the Watergate crisis, a special prosecutor was appointed by the Attorney General. Today the title has evolved into independent counsel; the investigator is chosen by a panel of three senior federal judges. Meese, in formally requesting an independent counsel, was expected to recommend that the counsel be given a mandate broad enough to permit an investigation into whether the Iranian arms shipments, as well as the diversion of money to the contras, may have violated the law. The judges are expected to announce their choice for the job this week...