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...Health Organization implored students to participate in a cross-university effort to make medicine more affordable for the poor at a packed event yesterday. “There are 10 million deaths each year from conditions for which effective, affordable prevention and treatment exist,” said Jim Yong Kim, who is now chair of the department of social medicine at the Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Partners in Health, an organization devoted to improving health care for the poor. Kim’s talk, entitled “Missing Medicines: Making University Drugs Accessible...
...Fish Leong—“Yong Qi.” The best ballad I’ve heard in years comes from China...
...Chaired by Dr. Paul E. Farmer, professor of social medicine at HMS and founding director of Partners in Health (PIH), the committee includes PIH cofounder Dr. Jim Yong Kim, the head of the department of social medicine at HMS and a former director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department; professors Dr. Myron E. “Max” Essex and Dr. Martin S. Hirsch, pioneers in HIV/AIDS research; and Dr. Chen...
...that this year had the largest participation in the event’s history. “Karaoke is a big phenomenon in Hong Kong and China.” The winner, Vincent See, a senior at Brown, sang his way to success with “Ai Shi Yong Heng” (“Love is Eternal”) and “Dan Che” (“Bicycle”) while on a crutch due to a skiing accident. Although he said he was pleased with his victory, See said, “the main...
...Yohan's sins, and the efforts of his younger brother Yosop to atone for them, form the core of South Korean author Hwang Sok-Yong's provocative 2001 novel The Guest, which has just been published in English for the first time. Hwang, one of South Korea's most famous writers, spent five years in prison for a 1989 trip to Pyongyang, flouting a ban on unauthorized contact with the North. He was pardoned by President Kim Dae Jung, but a stint in jail clearly failed to dent his taste for controversy. The Guest, the title of which...