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...terminal sedation is that the latter often goes hand-in-hand with cutting off other medications or removing a patient's feeding tubes. On its face, this may sound to many people as automatically hastening a patient's death. But that's not the case, says Dr. Ira Byock, chair of palliative medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, who has performed terminal sedation for his patients. "This is a practice, when used correctly, that's only done in the final stages of life," Byock says. "At that point, nutrition or antibiotics can usually do nothing to prolong life." Indeed, Dutch researchers...
Pierpaolo Barbieri ’09, a former Crimson associate editorial chair, is a history concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...Lawson dismissed the suit, thus temporarily delaying the fight over the constitutionality of the ban. By Any Means Necessary, another group that opposed the 2006 decision, announced yesterday that they would appeal the Court’s decision. On the group’s Web site, National co-chair Shanta Driver promised to continue pushing this case into the higher federal courts. “Just as in Brown v. Board of Education, we will win these cases at the United States Supreme Court by building the civil rights movement,” she said in a press release posted...
...said. Nolan, who says she is concerned about a perceived “discrepancy” between Cambridge schools’ reported performance and the official records, wrote a letter last month to the Educational Management Audit Council. A letter written back by Council Chair Maryellen Donahue confirmed an assessment of the Cambridge system as “satisfactory.” Donahue called this rating “very desirable, and not to be considered ‘average.’” Walser cited this as “one more piece of evidence?...
...Board Committee—should be part of the College’s official review. Ragalie and Holoshitz are both members of the UC’s committee. The two declined to comment. Sundquist said at the meeting that the committee’s chair, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology professor Donald H. Pfister, had told him he was not willing to consider the Council’s input on the issue. Sundquist also promised the UC he would raise the issue again. In a subsequent e-mail that Sundquist forwarded to the UC’s open list, Pfister wrote...