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...isolated, and frightened by the harassment, particularly when the institution seems in different to the problem. For students, sexual harassment and the fear of harassment can limit one's academic choices. It can cause victims to forego needed assistance with coursework, change or drop class or section, and to alter choices of concentration, research or career...
...American hospital, and most of these institutions will be forced to become more efficient. The American Hospital Association has been running seminars in recent months to teach administrators how to cope with the new rules. Though the A.H.A. generally supports the regulations, it also believes that they will radically alter the nature of care. Predicts A.H.A. President Alex Mc-Mahon: "Hospitals may tend to specialize in the services they perform most efficiently." In areas where there are too many maternity beds, for example, some hospitals may drop their obstetrics units. Hospitals that lose money on such complicated procedures as open...
There is a wisdom beyond sentimentality in the authentic apology. It has a purpose. Disraeli once said, "Apologies only account for that which they do not alter." That still accounts for much, and the accounting is indispensable. Perhaps not within a nation, where the law presumably does the accounting among individuals: the law pronounces judgment to mark an end to the cycle of vengeance that would otherwise follow a crime. But between nations there is no comparable agency to prevent historical wounds from festering endlessly. Nothing, except the apology. In an almost miraculous way, it seems capable of binding...
...Robert Atwell, vice president of the ACE, said last night that the concessions would not alter the intent or effectiveness of the plan. "I don't think that the essence of [the proposal] was seriously weakened, but at the same time it does meet the objections of the NCAA...
Similarly, the "accused" is not receiving as lesser punishment just because the details of the case are not revealed. Professor Dominguez's name has continued to appear in The Crimson and I doubt very much that at this point, he is under "no pressure" to "alter his behavior." The Government Dept.'s action and the unwanted publicity surrounding the case are, I'm sure, more than enough to "pressurize" anybody into mending his ways...