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Paul Hendrickson
Paul Hendrickson began his book about the Vietnam War with a young man attempting to toss former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara from the deck of a Martha's Vineyard ferry. "The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War" is a search for redemption for these two men wrestling on a boat, as well as for Hendrickson. He says that all his books are searches of a kind, for a particular past or redemption for sins.
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A near-death experience proves sobering
Jed Ryan (W'99) drinks a non-alcoholic toast to dear old Penn. Photo by Candace diCarlo Jed Ryan (W'99) almost didn't live to tell this story.
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Truman scholarship to College junior
Sarah P. Zimbler Photo by Mark Garvin
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AIDS treatments unfair
Who gets treatment for AIDS is political and economic, and surely not fair, said Dr. Paul Farmer, addressing a crowd of nearly 400 people last week at the Medical School. Farmer, associate professor of medical anthropology in Harvard's Social Medicine Department and founder of the Institute for Health and Social Justice, presented evidence collected in Haiti that made a direct link between class, race and gender, and the availability of prevention and treatment tools.
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Wharton School awards for teaching
The Wharton School has announced the winners of its top teaching awards for 1999. Franklin Allen Lorin M. Hitt
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"It's a way of being aware of what's going on, or something you may not have been aware of before."
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When seeing isn't seeing
Ever since the tragic pictures of Kosovo began appearing in the media, the analogy between these atrocities and the earlier ones of World War II keeps popping up. On the one hand, we applaud a world that has finally seen fit to respond in a way it did not during the Nazi atrocities, and we laud the media's role in showing the world what atrocity looks like.
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Four distinguished faculty honored
Two scientists, a philosopher and an economist from the University have received some of the most prestigious honors their peers can bestow. William K. DeGrado Ralph F. Hirschmann
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Cinematic poet screens and reads
Let's get one thing straight, right off the bat. Ray DiPalma is not Brian DiPalma. Or to put it another way, Ray is a poet, not a filmmaker. But don't tell that to the French, who seem so impressed by the cinematic quality of Ray DiPalma's poetry that two of them made films based on one of his poems. DiPalma the poet came to Kelly Writers House April 28 to show the films and read some of his poetry. The crowd started at 10 but grew to 20 for the poetry reading.
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A suite deal for surgical patients
Just because it's called "outpatient surgery" doesn't mean that once the procedure is over, the patient's ready to go home.