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Regulation Scores of agencies police doctors. Thousands of people make their living doing it. They give us yearly tasks that doctors, on pain of ending their careers, absolutely must do: 10-page reappointment forms, written exams, blood tests, physicals. Every hospital we work in, every HMO we sign up with does this too. Every year. Every 10 years we have to take our boards again. (Imagine if lawyers had to pass the bar exam every decade until they quit.) And there are yearly federal and state licensures and safety exams, fire exams, infection-control exams, malpractice-insurance exams, queries about...
...19th century, Argentina was one of the world's richest countries; poor European emigrants found themselves choosing between New York City and Buenos Aires. Somewhere along the way, though, things took a turn. Much has been written about why some economies thrive while others flail. But compared with works like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, Beattie's take is markedly less deterministic. Corruption may have killed Africa, he notes, but it worked rather well in South Korea, where bribery attained taxlike precision. Beattie, an editor at the Financial Times, develops a few themes: free trade is good. Infrastructure...
...framed four-by-two foot copy of the dreaded application hangs on the wall.The enormous application—an actual submission from a hopeful applicant—is complete with the student’s name, high school, and address, with rows of “Harvard” written across the header, with a miniscule “Yale” in the middle.“The biggest kick was that he sent it with a giant paper clip,” says Ian Anderson, the office’s file room director—perhaps the most...
...Quad” is a much more substantive production than a bunch of young adults breaking out in song in the middle of their day; it is a rock musical that realistically and thoroughly portrays the current of emotions from those college years and beyond.An original rock musical written and composed by Zoe S. N. Sarnak ’09 and directed by Jordan A. Reddout ’10, “The Quad” explores the tumults of the college experience against a background of upbeat rock music and piano music. Although it is made by college...
...That line gets right at the heart of ‘The Space Between,’ a new play at the Loeb Mainstage, conceived and directed by Catherine “Calla” Videt ’08. This incredibly ambitious production is the first student-written play to appear on the Mainstage in 15 years. While Videt’s subject might be theoretical physics, what she’s really interested in are moments where the science is inadequate to explain its own implications; equations may have built the bomb, but they can?...