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...already incapacitated or the volunteers themselves could sustain injuries which impede a safe intervention and rescue.” Understandably, the AEO wants to minimize injuries in any emergency situation. In helping a disabled classmate, students could potentially hurt themselves or their classmate irreparably. Though it might sound callous, Harvard legally must urge students not to endanger themselves. How to behave in an emergency often comes down to choice. And there will never be a clear cut decision to make in a situation where a non-disabled classmate has the option to help or leave behind his disabled friend...
...Worlds”—Steven Spielberg, so knowledgeable about the “human condition,” our callous inner nature, and how to make gajillions and quadrazillions of dollars, knows about powerful questions. He’s asked us about slavery, the Holocaust, being kind to space aliens, and most importantly about the very fabric of our lives, and whether or not that fabric can be purchased with the “Indiana Jones” DVD box set. He certainly left me with a powerful question at the end of his current summer blockbuster...
...hospitals across the U.S., similar tales of callous and even life-threatening treatment apparently stemming from changes in the Medicare system seem to be cropping up with disturbing frequency. To concerned doctors and health-care groups, they reflect a growing gap in the American health-care system. Carroll Estes, director of the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco, calls it the "no-care zone...
...always a happy experience for the students. Horowitz would sometimes cancel lessons without warning if he was not in the mood. "It had its negative aspects," says Alexander Fiorillo, a professor of piano at Temple University who studied with Horowitz between 1960 and 1962. "He is callous to people's emotions and their feelings. I almost had a nervous breakdown." Yet Coleman Blumfield, whose lessons came to a summary end in 1958 for reasons he never completely understood, declares, "It was a privilege and an honor to study under Horowitz. From him I learned the extreme range of tonal coloring...
...trying to blow up an El Al jet by planting a time bomb in the bag of his pregnant fiance. Had the plot succeeded, Murphy and the 374 other people aboard would have perished somewhere over Austria. Declared Prosecutor Roy Amlot: "It was one of the most callous acts of all time...