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...interested shareholders. Government money will go directly towards providing quality care to patients, not to handing out dividends. Under such a system, doctors should be paid high salaries for the essential service they perform; this would prevent “brain drain” from the medical profession and avoid the delays in elective procedures that have become problematic in other countries. Furthermore, such a plan would not preclude a private health insurance industry for patients who wish to extend their health care benefits to cover experimental drugs and procedures, nor would this system prevent Americans from buying additional health...
...blocking group consisting of eight creative, resourceful first-years has tried every trick in the book—and come up with a few of their own—to avoid being assigned to a House in the Quad...
Summers does more than avoid the waltz by throwing his weight behind Springfest. He gets the benefit of prominent interaction with students, specifically undergraduates. He also gets the benefit of working with council dollars and manpower to benefit groups the University has been accused of treating badly—Faculty and workers. That means that the band, the rides or games, and the food must be appealing to a wider audience. The splendid green space on the MAC Quad (cough) is too small to include a much wider range of attractions than it already does. Lee says attractions for younger...
Next year, one floor of DeWolfe will remain Faculty housing. This makes sense in the short term, as the College tries to avoid disrupting large numbers of Faculty at once, but over the next few years DeWolfe should become a uniformly undergraduate dormitory...
This verbal tic is particularly specific to America. I remember coming here from England and being stunned by the way in which my far more articulate and educated contemporaries peppered their statements with this pointless word. Despite my best efforts to avoid this affliction, I discovered that “like” is completely contagious. While at home over winter break I mentioned that I was “like” so excited to be back in England. My father, always a stickler for pure language pulled the car over and asked if I wanted to get back...