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...life here has made me appreciative of my right to speak out. I’ve been thinking a lot about Harvard, too. There, undergrads are renowned for our ability to complain about our social lives, academic advisors, dining halls, and whatever else we woke up wanting to whine about. This attitude of self-entitlement used to drive me crazy; now, I can’t wait to wake up to the complaints of a crotchety student body. Because we can, and because of what it represents for the wider world, Harvard students, stand up for your right to voice...
...ambulances stopped next to each other in the middle of the road, engines running and lights still blazing away. The swap only took two minutes - both Red Cross crews had done this before and the whine of a drone and rumble of passing Israeli jets overhead were further incentives for haste...
...villages with their litter-strewn streets appear deserted. Occasionally one or two people are seen, sitting in plastic chairs on the side of the road, chatting and smoking cigarettes. The shops, however are all closed. And high above is the incessant, threatening rumble of Israeli jets and the irritating whine of reconnaissance drones...
...people want calm, high-minded debate, this is not the site for it." Called in to mediate disputes among community members, Moulitsas has all the patience of a drill sergeant. "I get it all the time: 'Such-and-such was mean to me,'" he says in a mock whine. "I feel like I'm in high school. Suck it up, this is politics." More to the point, "This...
...time highs, staff numbers are being cut. Why don't hospital administrators hire enough staff to provide patients with better, safer care? Money is the answer. Maintaining or increasing current nonphysician staff levels cuts into the bottom line, reducing profits for both the hospitals and doctors. When doctors whine about substandard patient care, they're refusing to recognize that hospitals are understaffed. GEORGE M. DAVIS Fuquay-Varina...