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According to the report, the various faculties monitor the applicant flow for all faculty positions. They prepare special reports whenever a minority or a woman is on the final list but is not hired for a senior faculty or ladder faculty position. These reports are forwarded to the Governing Boards for review before the announcement is made...
...studies, and what might improve the current system of financing campaigns. I decided to cut right to the chase, saying, "The only solution is complete public financing; without it, corporations will always have more power than us." She assented, and we talked for a short while about the various scandals we had heard of. But then she added, "I just wish I knew what the candidates stood for. Like just a page each day in the paper would be enough. Or some time on the news...
...kingdom during the Gulf War. In bin Laden's view, armed infidels in the holy land were a desecration of Islam. After publicly criticizing the regime and becoming the target of a harassment campaign, he fled to Sudan in 1991. A sizable contingent of "Afghan Arabs"--Arabs from various countries who fought in Afghanistan--followed him and found work with his companies...
...ones who should be worried about the confidentiality of their medical records. Last month a coalition of groups that help aids patients in Boston went to court in an effort to stop auditors at the Department of Health and Human Services from passing on the names of patients in various aids programs to other government agencies. And two weeks ago two Marines were court-martialed for refusing to provide the military with samples of their DNA, something the Pentagon now demands of all service personnel...
Medical records contain some of the most sensitive of personal information--including sexual orientation, past drug use and genetic predisposition to various diseases. As part of the Hippocratic oath, physicians promise to keep whatever they learn about a patient to themselves. But it's hard to keep a secret if more than a couple of people are in on it; in a typical five-day stay at a teaching hospital, as many as 150 people--from nursing staff to X-ray technicians to billing clerks--have legitimate access to a single patient's records...