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...wrote that these efforts are manifested in the forms of changes in the chemical content and nicotine delivery mechanisms of cigarettes, and increasingly targeted advertising campaigns by the industry.The testimony was based on a study published last month, in which Connolly looked at the tobacco companies’ marketing methods??particularly their targeting of youth and minority populations. A statement about the bill appearing on Kennedy’s Web site states that the legislation seeks to break the “gruesome cycle [of addiction] that seduces millions of teenagers.” The release goes...
...course; and a Kennedy School of Government course will also participate in this combination of academic learning and community involvement. In shaping the courses, the Bok Center is focusing on the pedagogic aspect of the process. Boes said the center will be “helping faculty develop teaching methods?? to target the intersection of academic and service oriented learning. Aside from the Bok Center’s new “activity-based” courses, students can also participate in a not-for-credit course called “Education for Social Action...
...Gaza under the auspices of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a group that, according to its Web site, is “a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles.” These “methods?? usually take the form of sending American students to disrupt Israeli military activity including the demolition of Palestinian homes—some of which have been built to hide smuggling tunnels used to bring explosives for suicide bombers...
...time to train new student advisors on May 15. This Monday, the Peer Advising Fellows (PAF) Program met its deadline. With a surprising 480 applications to sort through on a tight schedule, this was a considerable accomplishment, but the process used for selecting PAFs belied the success. Its methods??particularly the solicitation of recommendations from undergraduates on the Student Advisory Board (SAB)—sparked controversy and left more than a few students confused and frustrated.The administration is to be commended for the new program, largely designed by the SAB. Currently, most first-years have an abysmal...
...character of dubious credentials who assumes the practice of a small town in France, Dr. Knock (pronounced “K-nock,” played by Julia C. Chan ’05) is driven by both materialistic and idealistic desires to his revolutionary “methods?? of medicine. Dr. Knock plots to find disease in all his patients, and as he diagnoses them, they prove more and more pliable to his commands for modern treatment, with their eventual conversion to his methods suggesting a “triumph of medicine” that is fundamentally...