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...team of Harvard Medical School and teaching hospital affiliates, led by Harvard Foundation Director S. Allen Counter Jr., traveled to Haiti in a relief mission last week...
Counter had previously assisted with relief efforts following an earthquake in Ecuador, an experience which he said was crucial in determining what supplies to bring on his relief mission to Haiti...
Counter attributed the efficiency of his relief trip to his collaboration with Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernández Reyna...
When Michigan's lieutenant governor, John Cherry, announced earlier this month that he wouldn't seek the state's top elected post, Democrats here and across the country sighed in relief. Though Cherry was the ostensible front runner to succeed Jennifer Granholm, a fellow Democrat, he couldn't muster enough interest, or money, to wage a credible campaign. Cherry's departure effectively opens what's expected to be a fierce primary battle between two ambitious, business-minded Democrats for the task of keeping Michigan's governor's seat in the party's hands...
...Chinese economy expanded 8.7% last year, the National Bureau of Statistics announced on Thursday, an impressive figure that will offer some relief to Beijing policymakers who declared that maintaining stable growth was critical to ensuring social stability in the face of the global economic downturn. Thanks to expansive stimulus spending and a flood of cheap credit, the Chinese government was able to ensure growth, giving it clout at home and abroad as other major world economies still grapple with slow recoveries. "Those measures quickly produced results and stopped the remarkable decline in our economic growth, and China thus became...