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...profit consulting subsidiary—on Friday to Partners HealthCare, a company that owns several major Massachusetts hospitals. The new entity will be known as Partners Harvard Medical International until 2012, after which the Harvard name will be dropped. News of the deal was first reported in January, with word that it would close by mid-March. “The transfer of HMI to Partners HealthCare will help Harvard Medical School in focusing its international activities on its central mission of education and research,” Medical School Dean Jeffrey S. Flier said through a spokesman. He added...
...each one over the dinner table the next day—was a family tradition.When Whitaker arrived in Cambridge, she originally chose to concentrate in History and Literature before realizing that the “literature” she found most intellectually compelling was not the written word but the moving image. “I thought it could be fun to take what I had thought of as a hobby and make it the meat of my academic work,” she says.Two years later, Whitaker has successfully made the history of cinema the centerpiece of her academic...
Actor-turned-activist Isaiah Washington has a new word in his vocabulary—“shillelagh...
...Irish word, which former Sierra Leonean Foreign Minister John Karefa-Smart defined as “big stick” at a panel discussion on Sierra Leone in Sever Hall Saturday, refers to a problem-solving tactic. Find the cause of the problem, and hit it with a “shillelagh...
...that King, the one who sounded a little bit like Jeremiah Wright, is not the one we remember every January. It's because the prophetic black church tradition has been filtered into an unthreatening form suitable for public consumption, so that it has been rendered, in Wright's word, "invisible." And it is because of that invisibility that Wright's sermons seemed so shocking and out of the mainstream. In reality, the two strands fit together - the unbearable optimism of "I Have a Dream" and the righteous anger of "I cannot be silent...