Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is the problem. Students would not opt out of open heart surgery. They are, after all, at medical school because they want to be doctors. There seems to be no procedure comparable to abortion, a technique students are strongly morally averse to. Setting broken bones, hysterectomies, removing malignant moles--on what grounds would anyone be interested in avoiding learning these topics? Regardless of medical students' personal beliefs, a medical school is obligated to teach medical procedures. Even if the medical school's official policy legitimizes all concerns about any courses, it is hard to think of anything besides abortion...
...adhere to the plaster; floors so rotted that children put their feet through them; long lines to use outmoded bathrooms; sewage backups in classrooms; asthma and respiratory illnesses as a result of mildew and fungus in ancient air ducts; falling ceiling tiles; condemned rooms; collapsing partitions; unusable playgrounds; broken stairs; carpets that smell from the repeated leaks and flooding...
...past few years. Employees at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan often go unpaid and sometimes slip away at the end of their shifts taking pilfered electrical components with them. Some of those employees, less interested in fencing stolen goods than simply eating a decent meal, have even broken into provisions intended for cosmonauts and made off with as many cans of borscht--and as many rations of vodka--as they could carry...
This, then, is the third reason offenders are currently disenfranchised--they're currently disenfranchised. This political Catch-22, in which people need a political voice to get one, is not likely to be broken anytime soon. As a result, there is little reason to be optimistic that those who have been deprived of suffrage will ever regain it. Depending, of course, on how much we value the vote. Stephen E. Sachs '02 lives in Grays Hall...
Rakow, an engineering concentrator, recounted her experiences as a karate expert who often competed against boys before she was banned from participating in formal matches against males on the grounds, according to her, that "boys are walking away with broken egos...