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...hardly begins to describe all the bad news that has battered the agency over the past few months, from the possible suicide risks with antidepressants like Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft to the cardiac risks of pain-killers like Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra. Americans depend on the FDA to carefully weigh the benefits and risks of all drugs before approving them, but the agency has had trouble lately shaking the growing perception, justified or not, that it has been working harder protecting the pharmaceutical industry than the public it's supposed to serve...
Yesterday, students had a chance to weigh in, as over 70 undergraduates jammed into the Institute of Politics for a debate sponsored by the Harvard Political Union...
...points out that “the ancient model of professor… was single and dedicated almost entirely to the College and its students. He is very rare, almost non-existent [now].” Of course, with changes in professorial life (and especially in the expectations that weigh upon them: more research, less teaching), the Houses have gradually lost the traces of faculty presence—remaining only in the rudiment of resident tutors, who of course are not professors but students themselves. The Senior Common Rooms, receptions to which professors affiliated with a House are invited...
About fifty professors attended the discussion, the third of four scheduled opportunities for faculty to weigh in on the curricular review...
Other students took a break from studying for final exams to weigh in on the University president’s latest foray into the national spotlight...