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...Harvard's recent push toward more cross-school collaborations in the sciences. Though he has never held a full-time position at Harvard, Frenk does have ties to the University. In addition to having served as a visiting professor, he was the School of Public Health's Class Day speaker in both 2001 and 2007, and is an adviser to the Harvard Initiative for Global Health. He has also maintained close relationships with Bloom and two former deans of the school.While the School of Public Health is often considered one of the best in the country—its masters...
...country's ruling Congress Party to withhold their ballots in a crucial July 22 vote of confidence. While allegations of "suitcase politics" are nothing new in India, it just wasn't cricket to theatrically air dirty laundry in such a public forum. Afterward, Somnath Chatterjee, India's lower-house speaker, called it "a very sad day in the history of Parliament...
...Bless his heart, President of the United States--a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy--you name the subject.' NANCY PELOSI, Speaker of the House, mocking George W. Bush after he scolded Congress for legislative inaction...
...strategic interests of the U.S. Singh kept his majority by forging a series of alliances, first with the Samajwadi Party, a powerful player in the key northern state of Uttar Pradesh, and then with a series of smaller regional parties. "They ayes have it," said Somnath Chatterjee, the speaker of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, as he announced the results at about 8:25 p.m., New Delhi time...
...unprecedented display on the floor of Parliament: during the afternoon debate session, a group of opposition MPs from the Bharatiya Janata Party displayed stacks of cash, asserting that one of them had been offered a bribe to abstain from the vote. The commotion disrupted the proceedings as Speaker Chatterjee insisted that the claim be made formally and in writing, rather than on the open floor. That was just the most serious of the allegations thrown against the Congress Party during the two-day debate over the confidence measure. Earlier in the day, an MP from the Bahujan Samaj Party...