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...Faculty] have a certain amount of freedom to choose those plans, and we don't want the amount paid to faculty members contingent on the plan that they chose to adopt," he said...
...accepted donations from "some unsavory individuals" such as Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier. I believe Mother Teresa accepted them because of the genuine good that would result from helping the poor. Human judgments must bow to divine judgment, and Mother Teresa more than anyone else understood the need to adopt that view. Whatever faults she might have had pale in comparison to the very true criticism Mother Teresa leveled at us in our supposed enlightened and evolved modern civilization. CARLOS DE VERA New York City...
While most surgeons are willing to adopt minimally invasive, or noninvasive, procedures to control bleeding during an operation--such as laparoscopy, which requires tiny incisions, or ultrasound to destroy kidney stones--they usually stop short of transfusionless surgery. Some medical fundamentalists view it as a false promise with its own risks, but even doctors who acknowledge its value caution that it is not the panacea some physicians think it is. Certain situations--liver transplants, for example, and instances of trauma--will always require transfusions. Says Dr. Steven Gould, a surgeon at the University of Illinois at Chicago who advocates reduced...
...forced working parents to juggle a mid-week move-in. Some council debates have made me shudder at the unintentional intolerance which can result from the underrepresentation of different voices. This was epitomized by the strong conviction of some council members in the fall of 1995 that Harvard should adopt John Harvard as our official mascot. I know I am not alone when I say that the pilgrimish John Harvard figure represents everything that Harvard should not-chiefly, exclusivity. Harvard in John Harvard's day did not welcome women, students of color, Jews and Muslims, and there was certainly...
...cops think they are in a war, as McNamara said, perhaps they should adopt some of the military's doctrine. Even occupying armies must know the difference between friends and enemies. Cops who view communities in which they serve as "the bush" and its residents as the enemy are not likely to gather intelligence and arrest the most serious criminals. Minorities in inner cities have a serious stake in eradicating drugs and guns. However, they will not support police operations if they feel that most cops are not serious professionals but hostile, narrow-minded thrill seekers. JOSEPH BALANCIER JR. Marina...