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...cancer] epidemic in Africa is totally different from what we face in the developed world. In Africa, we have to deal with simpler solutions. You don't have the tobacco burden, but you have people obviously not getting any health care, not getting any diagnoses, not getting any medicine. That has to be addressed...
...which 30-second video clips and a ceaseless stream of “Flavor of Love” spin-offs have supplanted the simpler entertainments in the battle for the attentions of America’s youth, it has become very easy—too easy—to issue a woeful jeremiad about our culture’s inexorable backslide. It seems clear that active measures to adapt literacy education to the changing tastes of our youth would prove altogether more effectual than the noisy resignation to predicted intellectual decline that others have been so quick to express...
...commercial kid. He is good-looking, upright and proper, and has a small book open in his hands (what could it be? The Bible? The Constitution? The Federalist Papers?) as he looks at the camera in his white-tie apparel. He makes you yearn for the simpler days of childhood, when you could just, you know, run free and wild—in white-tie, of course. (Note: No, I do not want to take Bill O’Reilly home with me.) —Anna E. Sakellariadis
...billion dollar losses and complex financial assets, Santander's fortunes speak to the advantages of a simpler approach. Spain's largest bank "lends to their clients, takes deposits from their clients, and runs a network of branches," says Antonio Ramirez, analyst at investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in London. "It's quite simple, quite traditional." Focused on retail banking, with limited investment banking operations, and with a long-buoyant domestic market to lean on, Santander side-stepped the toxic assets caught up in the collapse of the U.S. sub-prime mortgage market. Enjoying "good growth at home, they were never...
Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan announced Friday that the current letter grading scale would be replaced by a simpler pass-fail system, beginning with students who matriculate...