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Tuesday of this week marked the four-year anniversary of one of the most shameful episodes in the modern history of the American university. It happened at Middlebury College in Vermont, where political scientist, author, and American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray was, as The Wall Street Journal put it, âshouted down by an angry mob clearly unable to challenge him intellectually.â
Murray was ultimately taken to another location on campus, but not before Allison Stanger, a Middlebury professor who escorted him away, was injured and sent to the hospital. (And weâre told
students need safe spaces?)
Murray, a libertarian, has been a favorite whipping boy of the Left since the 1994 publication of his book,
Book World: Haunted by a grisly execution, an investigator decides to dig deeper
Daniel Stashower, The Washington Post
March 5, 2021
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Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice
By Ellen McGarrahan
- - - I ve tried to ignore this mystery, this misery, which has grayed the edges of so many days, writes Ellen McGarrahan at the start of Two Truths and a Lie, her haunting memoir, which also unfolds as a gripping true-crime narrative. But I keep waking up in the middle of it, this rattling echo, this old sorrow, these dead bones. I need it to go away and leave me alone.
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The hope for many companies developing drugs for rare diseases is this: The significant unmet need, given a dearth of treatment options, will drive demand and thus product uptake. Unfortunately, the reality is more challenging.
While we have seen a significant increase in the number of drugs for rare diseases, accurate diagnosis rates of rare diseases continue to trail behind those of more prevalent diseases.
The average time to diagnosis for a patient with a rare disease is 5 to 7 years. The delay is driven by:
Lack of awareness among health care professionals (HCPs) of symptoms and markers
Known for his novel The Things They Carried, O Brien is now the subject of a new documentary, The War and Peace of Tim O Brien. When he became a father in his late 50s, he initially feared parenthood would curtail his writing." Much as Vietnam did, [parenthood] gave me a body of material, that kind of context to write about," he says. "Maybe it s biology just keeping the species going, but I feel that I m part of something age-old that s going to continue long after I m gone."Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews the true crime book Two Truths and a Lie, about a botched execution and a quest for justice.