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...rebuilt his career, Downey also worked on, for the first time, a healthy relationship with a woman. "I don't want to be that schmuck who's just, you know, looking down a hallway in a leased McMinimansion in Brentwood going, 'Hey. I wonder what me and so-and-so are going to do tonight.'" The stable family that Downey craved didn't come intuitively. Early on when they were dating, says Susan, "he'd be driving home, and I'd say, 'Drive safely.' He'd be like, 'What do you mean? Do you think I'm not a good...
Ultimately, the questions themselves proved to be his destiny. Unlike a clinical psychologist, Gilbert is more interested in understanding people than in helping them. He’ll never prompt, “Tell me about your relationship with your mother...
...Hauser Center to discuss the difficulties of managing a nonprofit organization. The event, entitled “Tensions and Trade-Offs for Nonprofit Leaders,” was led by visiting Associate Professor of Public Policy Alnoor S. Ebrahim. Ebrahim, a professor at Virginia Tech, explored the relationship between external accountability—the obligation nonprofits feel to report data to their funders—and internal learning—the usefulness of data within the organization. Ebrahim, who drew on his recent research in Washington D.C. for this lecture, said he plans to expand the project to Boston later...
Disagreements about the Cambridge City Council’s relationship with the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) brought heated debate to the Council’s weekly meeting last night. Councillor Marjorie C. Decker introduced a proposition requesting a “dollar-to-dollar review” of the funding that the Council provides to CHA, citing CHA’s lack of formal accountability to the Council and its recent decision to remove obstetrician-gynecologist services from three of its 12 neighborhood clinics. The Council approved Decker’s measure with an amendment requiring the city manager...
...Merck, which is one of many between Harvard researchers and the pharmaceutical company, will play an important role in helping the University fulfill its public obligations, said Senior Associate Provost Isaac T. Kohlberg, who heads Harvard’s Office of Technology and Development. “Through this relationship, the public and the patients will benefit because it is only through this relationship that drugs are being developed,” he said. “It’s only through this collaboration that universities fulfill their role to society.” The Office of Technology...