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...Alex Slack ’06 is a history concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
...WHAT IS ALBERTA'S SOLUTION? Health and Wellness says it is adding facilities and staff to its system but can't continue to do so at the current rate indefinitely. That's why it wants the private sector to start taking up the slack, though only in three areas: knee and hip replacement and certain kinds of eye surgeries, such as cataract operations. The idea is that that would bring additional funding into the system and more fully employ medical staff. To work in the private sector, medical practitioners will have to submit a "business plan" to the health ministry...
...works at the Tower Records store across from The Red House, said there seemed to be a “ton” of firemen outside the restaurant. “We just looked outside, and the sky was really bright and smoky,” she said. Alex Slack ’06, who is a former editorial chair of The Crimson, also witnessed the activity outside the restaurant. According to Slack, police had blocked off the portion of JFK Street between Mt. Auburn Street and Eliot Street, and three firetrucks responded to the fire. But Kenneth Zimmerman...
...even Ken Mehlman, Dewey’s equivalent on the national stage—but they feel that such criticism is off limits when it comes to our fellow students. Unfortunately, when Harvard undergraduates publicly air ignorant and offensive beliefs, we tend to give them far more slack than they deserve. For some of us, it appears, loyalty to Harvard comes before responsibility to the broader community. Dewey attacked the queer community, but sadly, many Harvardians seem to think that the fact that he is a member of the Harvard community is somehow a mitigating factor. If Dewey...
...That left Canada's women to pick up the slack, and did they ever. Although outnumbered by men (110 to 88), the women won twice as many medals (16 to 8). That continues the trend since 2002, when women won nine and the men seven, plus a shared gold in pairs' figure skating. Do the Olympics mean something more to female athletes? "I think the women have something to prove," says Karin Lofstrom, executive director of the Canadian Association of Women and Sport. "This is their time to shine, to be in the limelight, and it's to their credit...