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...admitted within the last 24 hours. The boy weighs only 69% of the expected weight for his age and is malnourished. He has a high fever, a cough and persistent diarrhea. His parents, Jurin and Nazdin, educated Dhaka residents, wait anxiously as he receives intravenous fluids. "We don't understand where this is coming from," says Nazdin. But Sack, the center's executive director, knows. Malnutrition and diarrhea go hand-in-hand, and in Bangladesh both are so widespread that not even middle-class children can escape their self-perpetuating cycle. "If you have a child that is malnourished...
...house system, and shopping period—apply less to University governance, bust are still part of the zeitgeist of the school that need to be understood before policy is made. These traditions also act as obstacles and create a tremendous amount of inertia. A new president needs to understand them so that he or she can comprehend what can and cannot be changed quickly...
While an outsider may be able to come to understand these traditions and quirks after an ample period of immersion, Harvard’s next president will need to hit the ground running and can’t afford to survey the lay of the land for too long. Before he or she even formally takes office, the new president will need to make one of the most crucial decisions of his or her tenure by selecting a new dean of the Faculty. He or she will also be faced with the prospects of implementing a new College curriculum, jumpstarting...
...editorial repeats the canard that “EA programs are often incorrectly understood to be binding contracts that lock students into attending their institution of choice, should they be accepted.” Really—if you’re not smart enough to understand that an Early Action program isn’t binding, you’re not going to stand much of a chance of being accepted by a university like Harvard, let alone succeed there. The distinction between Early Action and Early Decision is just not rocket science...
...Parsi: First, it is critical to understand that while President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be getting all the attention with his scary rhetoric, he's not the one calling the shots in Tehran. Executive power in Iran does not rest with the presidency, but with the Supreme Leader and a couple of executive councils with which he consults. And that's particularly true on matters of foreign policy and national security. While Ahmedinajad was dominating the headlines at the U.N. two weeks ago, Larijiani was back in Iran receiving instructions for the negotiations with the Europeans. Apparently, Ahmadinejad is not actually...