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...dean of medical education to create formal rules on lecturer disclosure. The following week, the HMS Curriculum Committee created new policies requiring lecturers to disclose conflicts of interest when they are relevant to the lecture material. This process demonstrates how collaboration between faculty, students, and administration can lead to swift institutional changes...
...even smaller manifestations of independent thinking are bringing a swift response. In mid-March, the mainland's Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch reported that Zhang Shijun, a former People's Liberation Army solider who wrote an open letter expressing his regret about the crackdown on protest in Tiananmen Square in 1989, was taken away from his home in the middle of the night by armed policemen. There has been no news since then of Zhang, who had served in one of the military units that put down the protests and contributed to the loss of hundreds of lives...
Manufacturers can't count on a swift rebound once a recovery is in progress. Americans are starting to save more, and they may not return to their free-spending ways for years. "There is good reason to believe the capitulation of the American consumer has only just begun," said economist Stephen Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. Ajay Chhibber, director of the Asia bureau at the United Nations Development Program in New York City, says the tigers can't expect to weather this recession by temporarily increasing government spending to boost growth until Western export markets recover. "The model where...
...emotion with ease. Even his battle of words and witty dialogue with Derrah’s Clov is pitch perfect, a delicate rhythm and timing established between the two that provides a bitterly comedic give-and-take. This verbal jousting keeps the one-act play moving at a swift pace. While LeBow is confined to his wheelchair, Derrah provides adept physical clowning, embodying Clov with distinct mannerisms (although LeBow, too, has his moments of physical comedy, wheelchair and all). Airaldi’s Nagg is amusing in an idiosyncratic way, but like Derrah, his performance fittingly becomes affecting and profound...
...looked like he was trying to peek up Taylor Swift's skirt on stage...