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...human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a pathogen so wily and protean that researchers rarely talk about curing infected patients, focusing instead on treatment and prevention. But in an announcement that caused a flutter of excitement and a wave of prudent skepticism, Berlin-based hematologist Gero Huetter claimed on Thursday that he has cured an HIV infection in a 42-year-old man through a bone-marrow transplant...
...give black people some manners, a God-child descending from the heavens to teacheth benighted African Americans the virtues of books and proper English and the evils of Pacman Jones and blaming the white man. It pains me to deliver this sobering news to those who think Obama will wave his hand and erase whole ghettos: Barack Obama is a black President, not black Jesus...
...even as the Connecticut decision brought celebration to New England this week, it was a stark counterpoint of last week’s wave of bad news: from California, Florida and Arizona, all of which passed referenda amending their state constitutions to ban same-sex marriage. Even as Massachusetts and California appeared at one point to sit at the vanguard of a movement for marriage equality in the United States, the popular tide seems to have turned in a worrying direction...
...it’s a dark comedy with dense and dramatic moments. It’s funny, and it’s scary that it’s funny.RR: Are you worried that the audience will start to sympathize and that you’ll unleash a new wave of assassinations?SLL: The play makes you see these people as human. The audience will leave seeing a bit of humanity in them.RR: Do you have any advice for President-elect Barack Obama’s bodyguards so that the plot of assassinations ends here?SLL: I hope it does...
...Harvard’s recent wave of Financial Aid reforms include sweeping measures that have allowed students from low-income families to afford an Ivy League education. The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative has eliminated the entire cost of attendance for students whose annual family income is below $60,000. The most recent financial aid measures have extended these benefits to the middle class: the FAO has eliminated loans and the use of home equity as means to finance educational costs, and has also reduced the cost of attendance to 10 percent of income for families with incomes...