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With the fall just beginning, activists on campus dream about the battles awaiting them. Which issues will share the spotlight this year? Although time will reveal all, we can be sure about one thing: The fight over ROTC is hardly over, especially after the deans rejected last April's pro-ROTC vote in the Undergraduate Council...
...University's full acceptance of ROTC. Or, at least, that it's unreasonable to welcome ROTC without conceding that it should undergo that "liberalizing force." But it's not as unreasonable as Harvard's 30-year cold war with the military and its men and women--who, although imperfect like all of us, devote their lives to our freedom, our ability to pursue the lives we will and our security within these ivory towers...
...biological sciences have done best in the budget contests, with the National Institutes of Health emerging relatively unscathed. Although medical research can be lifesaving, Rudenstine and the University have rightly called for a more even distribution of research funding, which ensures that the physical and applied sciences are not left behind...
...problem with brinkmanship is you have to know where the brink is. Although it wants to keep its confrontation with Chechnya limited to air strikes, Moscow is in danger of lurching right back into the quagmire of three years ago. Russia rolled tanks up to the border Tuesday and bombed the rebel republic for the sixth consecutive day, as tens of thousands of refugees poured out of Chechnya. The Kremlin vowed to stamp out the Islamic rebels it holds responsible for a wave of terrorist bomb attacks on apartment buildings throughout Russia, and has accused the Chechen government of aiding...
...Georgia and Texas, California?s new law wrenches much medical decision-making from the grip of HMOs and hands it back to the patients and their doctors. In most states, HMOs are protected from liability in cases where treatment is withheld or delayed in the interest of economy ?- although if congressional Democrats, led by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), prevail in upcoming policy debates, the insurance companies? medical decisions will be fair game. Fierce anti-HMO public opinion and the AMA?s fat checkbook are making patients? rights more politically attractive than ever, and despite concerns that opening HMOs...