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...inconsistently and unpredictably. Only a small fraction of capital murderers are sentenced to death, and even fewer are actually executed. Thus, those who do die may be a new species of scapegoat: guilty, but no guiltier than those thousands permitted to live. Says American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer Alvin Bronstein: "All evidence shows the current system to be highly arbitrary...
...Supreme Court, Justice Byron White, who oversees the Fifth Circuit, was standing by for a possible new plea in the Autry case. While the circuit court's opinion was being read into a Supreme Court tape recorder, Alvin Bronstein, executive director of the A.C.L.U.'s National Prison Project, was sitting in the lobby writing out in longhand an application to stay the execution. As he wrote, the lights flickered on and off, a consequence of the drain on the building's electrical system caused by the refrigeration of historic documents in glass cases in the lobby. Only...
...course in the one aspect of medicine that most never learned in medical school: finance. Over the past few months, hospitals have been distributing pamphlets to physicians, detailing the exact cost of every test, operation and medication, and offering instructions on how to cut out unnecessary expenses. Says Ben Bronstein, communications director of the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania: the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania: "Doctors are going to have to bite the bullet and ask themselves if they really need all those tests." Physicians who routinely order nose-to-toes X rays or prescribe the latest and most costly antibiotic...
Tuesday night, HRZL called an "emergency meeting" at which members drew up their pamphlet. Rona G. Shapiro '83, a HRZL member, said yesterday. Peter A. Bronstein '82, also a HRZL member, said "the anti-Israel pamphlet presented an incomplete and distorted view of the Mid-East situation. We decided to inform people how important Israel is to American foreign policy...
HRZL members expressed concern, however, that the committee's campaign may affect public opinion. Peter A. Bronstein '82, who distributed HRZL leaflets, yesterday called the committee literature "deceptively well done...