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...Jackie Mason used to do a bit on this topic - "my doctor is the best doctor." Books and magazines whose covers promise lists of the "very best" doctors sell well every year. A marketing business has grown up around the notion of the "best doctor"; for a hefty fee they bring famous athletes (interested in picking up a few easy bucks in the off season) to my office for me to examine while they take pictures. The ads then say, "When he gets hurt, Bubba only goes to the best - he sees Dr. Haig." I found this almost as funny...
...moderator Tracy E. Nowski ’07, the Ladies articulately discussed everything from Easy Mac and back beards to suicide and politics—and of course, nudity (“As you get older, it’s less funny and more sad”). The topic that came up most often, however, was Canada. When fellow Canadian Nowski asked what they thought made them distinctly Canadian, Robertson’s response was: “We offer free health care at all of our shows.” And the 40 students invited to the warm...
From last May’s much-debated placement of condom boxes in freshman dorms to the recent opening of the Women’s Center, reproductive rights and women’s issues have always been a heated topic of discussion on the Harvard campus. Pitching in on the debate, a panel of speakers at the Harvard Law School (HLS) discussed the effects of U.S. abstinence-only policies. The event, entitled “Sex, Lies, and Silence,” offered a scathing critique of both abstinence-only education and the Bush administration’s funding...
Amidst rumors that black studies scholar Cornel R. West ’74 may return to Harvard, members of the African and African American Studies Department said yesterday that the issue has been a topic of discussion among faculty.Jayne Professor of Government and of Af-Am Jennifer L. Hochschild said last night that West’s possible homecoming had been in talks since the spring. “We’ve been talking about this on and off in the past six months...that it might come up in the fall,” she said. The department...
...When asked how she felt that both moderator and opponent were Harvard men, Firenze, a Bentley College grad, responded, “I’m not intimidated.” Despite audience members’ acrimony, the debate itself lacked much controversy. On the topic of improving local traffic conditions, Firenze responded to Brownsberger’s answer with “ditto.” Only on the Iraq war and abortion did the candidates differ. Firenze felt that it would be a “bad idea”—and unconstitutional?...