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...they tour hospitals and huts, they seem to delight in these escapades, not just because they are intellectually captivated by the scientific challenge of treating the diseases of the poor but also because they are convinced that they are living through a historic inflection point when medical breakthroughs could save the lives of millions. They see the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation not as a solution but as a catalyst for this progress: pumping resources and rigor into the fight just when scientists are inventing new tools that could change everything. "This is a magic time in terms of the momentum...
...year existence, the Gates Foundation has accomplished a fraction of what it aims to do. But already it has helped save at least 700,000 lives in poor countries through its investments in vaccinations. In the U.S., its library project has brought computers and Internet access to 11,000 libraries. And it has sponsored the biggest privately funded scholarship program in history, sending 9,048 high-achieving minority students to college. It is the largest foundation in the world, with an endowment of $29 billion. Each year it spends almost the same amount as the World Health Organization...
...closed the game on a 10-2 run to claim its fifth consecutive win. What has plagued the Crimson in each of its six previous losses—poor shooting from the field and too many turnovers—again proved fatal on Saturday. Harvard trailed all game save for a 50-second stretch late in the second half, and the Red Foxes scored 16 points off of 20 Crimson turnovers. Marist built a 24-18 halftime lead in a game lacking any sustained offense and built a 35-23 lead behind an 11-5 run to open the second...
...Schindler's-List template of one-good-man-against-the-world Hollywood uplift. April was unsparing, without being gratuitous, in showing how horrific yet casual the violence was, and Idris Elba (The Wire) was stunning as a Rwandan officer who came to see the light too late to save his mixed-ethnicity family. Equally important, this movie explored the important -- if sometimes impossible -- process of reconciliation and justice in present-day Rwanda. I doubt I could bear watching this movie a second time, but I'm grateful to have seen it once...
Enough. It’s time to consider just what can be done to save the Harvard section, or whether it should be saved...