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...lawyers believed such a case, with no patient consent, was a legal matter. It involved one individual taking the life of another, and required the impartial weighing of all the relevant facts to determine what the patient would have wanted, which only a court can accomplish. The relevant facts would include expert medical testimony, the best estimates of the values and beliefs of the patient concerning medical care, and the pain that he would have to endure without knowing...
...West Bank Palestinians are understandably furious over Begin's proposals. Anwar Nuseibeh, a former Jordanian Defense Minister who is now an attorney in East Jerusalem, argues that the plan calls for "a perpetuation of the present occupation without our consent." In the current bitterness, the forthcoming negotiations on Palestinian autonomy, to be attended by Egyptian, Israeli and American officials, are dismissed by virtually all West Bank Arabs as irrelevant...
This attitude is dangerous and unacceptable. University administrators are supposed to take the day-to-day tasks off the hands of the faculty and students, who will then have time to pursue their intellectual endeavors; the administration is to rule only by the consent of those it is supposed to serve. Instead, Bok's logic--clearly evinced by his refusal to respond to the stock divestiture issue--gives the administration and Corporation a free hand to rule in what they decide is in the general interest, even if many concerned members of the University disagree. Bok answers...
...that it thinks may interest them, but no more. If the FCC's proposal is adopted as a formal rule, the cable operator will be able to add programs from stations in Indianapolis, Sioux City, Iowa, and several other points. Moreover, it will not need to get the consent of, or make any payment to, the broadcaster whose signal it picks up, though the cable operator will have to pay small copyright fees to the owner of the program. Broadcasters are sure to make an angry challenge of this aspect of the proposed FCC ruling in Congress. Quite...
...University of Chicago spokesman angrily branded Murphy's allegations "exaggerations and misstatements." In defense of Huggins and the university, he produced a research paper, published in 1958, that appeared to explain the surgery: it was performed seven years earlier with family consent on only six schizophrenics, two of whom also had cancer -one in the prostate gland, the other in the breasts...