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BARNSTABLE, MASS.—Most postcards sent from my hometown feature John F. Kennedy ’40 squinting into the sun, haloed by a swath of sail, or sand dunes tumbling toward the water, girdled by a snow fence or bearded men in sou’westers clutching lobsters that are the over-enthusiastic red of Chinese takeout spareribs. Here on the biceps of Cape Cod, where much of the year-round population of 48,000 devotes itself to fleecing summer visitors, there is money to be made in the picturesque...
...string of racially-charged incidents at Harvard Law School (HLS) this spring resulted in a broad swath of administrative policies intended to promote racial sensitivity on the campus—where some students say exists a “systematic problem of racial and ethnic harassment...
...from safe. Because many deadly agents can spread quickly and cut a wide swath of destruction, the responsibility for coping with the consequences of a possible attack will rest with the country's nearly 7,000 local health departments, which still must train hospitals and physicians in how to spot and treat the symptoms of bioterrorism. "We haven't really gotten stuff done yet," says Tara O'Toole, a biodefense expert at Johns Hopkins University. Government researchers are also playing catch-up: a recent Defense Department analysis found that the U.S. has countermeasures against only a third of the most...
...concentration is ideal for students whose “academic interests don’t fall squarely within one discipline.” In the 1980s, the discipline served many students interested in Latin American studies. More recently, in the wake of Clinton-era cumbersome health care proposals, a swath of students pursued special concentrations in health policy. Foster says her program always draws from a unique pool of students ready to deal with the distinct benefits and burdens that come with blazing their own trails...
...willing to take in order to steal Netanyahu's thunder. On Sharon's left flank, the political fallout from "Operation Defensive Shield" may prove corrosive. While it's unlikely that Israeli forces deliberately killed Palestinian civilians in Jenin, the fact that Israeli forces found themselves flattening a swath of houses in refugee camp in pursuit of some 100 hardcore fighters is instructive of the type of war Israel faces in the West Bank. Those 100 fighters almost certainly had the support of the non-combatant population, and that support will almost certainly have been strengthened rather than weakened...