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...education. Doctors call medical therapies “evidence-based” only if clinical trials–as opposed to mere anecdotal experience–have suggested that the therapies are effective. The medical school wants to establish a new Center for Evaluation to apply the academic gold standard to medical education techniques. “To ensure that curriculum reform is not a faith-based initiative,” the vignette continues, “the center will take its measuring tape [to assess how well the curriculum meets students’ needs...
Hausammann wrote in an e-mailed statement that “we remain committed to the principles of the Katz Committee, and will continue to use the implementing recommendations as the appropriate standard against which to measure our vendors’ employment practices...
Barnhill said he has been inspired to spearhead a campaign called “I am Harvard,” aimed at “eliminating the notion that Harvard isn’t a place for minorities, women, and other sorts of people that defy your standard Harvard profile...
...Finally, there is a sign that one of the two major parties is worried about a possible third-party Bloomberg run. The Weekly Standard magazine, the Murdoch-owned bible of the neoconservative movement, has as its latest cover story a cartoon of a diminutive Bloomberg perched in an over-sized, throne-like chair, with the headline: "The Mystery of Michael Bloomberg: Why does a popular but mediocre mayor think he should be President?" Republicans are generally convinced that Ross Perot took a disproportionate share of his 20% of the vote in 1992 out of the hide of the incumbent Republican...
...remain committed to the principles of the Katz Committee, and will continue to use the implementing recommendations as the appropriate standard against which to measure our vendors' employment practices," Hausammann wrote in an e-mailed statement. "As we have consistently made clear, the University will not intervene in the on-going collective bargaining negotiations between AlliedBarton and its employees...