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...said that failing to stop the genocide in Rwanda was the biggest regret of your tenure. If you could do it again, would you commit U.S. troops to stop what happened there? And given what we know about the genocide in Darfur, should the U.S. send troops to stop the killing there...
...busy one in Durham, and not just because of the District Attorney election. A report to Duke University President Richard Brodhead that is expected to be damning about the lacrosse team's general behavior is due Monday. And that same day is the deadline for accepted applicants to commit to Duke...
With an extra $70,000 on its hands after the outsourcing of campus-wide events to the College Events Board, the UC can afford to guarantee and augment its contributions to HoCos. We hope that a constitutional amendment will commit the UC to allocating a certain percentage of the UC’s budget to HoCos each semester. The UC should take House size into account when making its awards to the various HoCos, though the distribution should not be exactly proportional to population; merely it must take into consideration that Quincy with its over 460 students needs to spend...
Friedman's doctors weren't incompetent. They didn't operate on the wrong breast or give her the wrong drugs or commit any egregious medical errors--and that is the whole point. While there are bad doctors practicing bad medicine who go undetected, that's not what scares other physicians the most. Instead, they have watched the system become deformed over the years by fear of litigation, by insurance costs, by rising competition, by billowing bureaucracy and even by improvements in technology that introduce new risks even as they reduce old ones. So doctors resist having tests done if they...
...center is all male. Across town, female Opus Dei members have their own separate facility called the Metro Center. Because the male numeraries and some associate numeraries commit to celibacy, the residential wing here is structured to be, in its own way, a facsimile of family life. In the common area one room is designated the "living room," and another the "family room." Meals are eaten together and served buffet-style - chicken, rice, peas, French bread and raisin cake were on the menu last night - and after dining, about 45 minutes is set aside for the "get-together," which...