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50th Reunion Symposiums. At 1:30, “Journalism and the Public Interest??; at 3:15, “Educating Physicians, Educating Patients.” Sanders Theatre...
...blaming to do. Frankly, Harvard seems destined to a lofty place in the bourgeois cosmos, today re-established after decades of deviation from the path of the Boston Brahmin, all of us again participating in just the “naked self-interest?? Marx inveighs against in his manifesto. No one expresses more than a tinge of voiceless, ‘moral’ disgust at the flagrant, moustache-twirling greed of those attending info session after Goldman Sachs info session; these shock troops of the global market get a free pass (except of course from the aging...
While not everyone goes so far as accessorizing with mementos of their academic love interests, I soon discovered to my delight that I’m not alone in following my heart to the classroom. The sex appeal of teaching staff has the happy power of arousing interest??in the subject matter. For example, my roommate was drawn to the linguistics department after Professor Andrew I. Nevins caught her fancy, and another friend packs her schedule by auditing extra courses taught by professors with sexy accents. Every female in my Shakespearean Tragedy section flocked to the course?...
...real estate developer accused Harvard of backing a loan with 42 percent interest??twice the legal limit—in a lawsuit filed last week. Fred Fahey, the developer who filed the suit, charged that Harvard and other institutions, including endowments at Yale and Princeton, violated a law that was intended to curb loan sharks, who impose excessive rates on borrowers, often backed by threats of violence. The lawsuit claimed that Harvard and the other institutions invested in Realty Financial Partners, which charged an interest rate that exceeded state limits. Other parties that were named in the suit...
...Consulting payments can induce physicians to make treatment decisions because of financial ties—and not necessarily in the patient’s interest??according to Merrill Goozner, director of the Integrity in Science program at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit consumer group...