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...merged institution is cutting costs by, among other things, consolidating operations: for example, Brigham sends all liver-transplant patients to Massachusetts General. The total number of beds has been reduced from 1,700 to 1,514, and Samuel Thier, president of Massachusetts General, hopes to get that number down to 1,000. A first-year saving of $47 million out of a total combined budget of $1.1 billion seems to confirm what critics of the old teaching-hospital model, such as Alan Sager, professor at Boston University's School of Public Health, have long maintained: these blue-chip institutions...
...Globe said the protest came after Brandeis president Samuel O. Thier decided to extend the school's antismoking policy to include a popular campus dining hall and an upstairs lounge in the Goldfarb Library...
...almost universal truth that children who have been sick most of thier lives possess a wisdom and maturity beyond their years. Benito Agrelo, 15, possesses both -- and plenty of spunk to boot. When social workers arrived with five police cars and two ambulances at his Coral Springs, Florida, home, they planned to force the boy, who is dying of liver failure, to go to the hospital. But Benny, who has already undergone two liver transplants, told them he wanted to be left alone to live out whatever remained of his life in peace. The 5-ft. 2-in. teenager...
...packed in 2,771 individual counseling sessions at the Office of Career Services (OCS)--more than a third of the 8,232 sessions held by the office last year. At OCS, students discuss their postgraduation concerns, evaluate their resumes, or participate in mock interviews with a counselor specializing in thier field of interest...
...suit also reflects the growing political and financial clout small landlords hold in the city and thier hope that the current U.S. Supreme Court will look more favorably upon their cause than past Supreme Courts...