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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bok said he would not consider it contradictory for a University officially opposing divestiture to award a degree to one who believes that U.S. investments support apartheid. There is "no moral or intellectual orthodoxy that governs" a university's actions, Bok said.

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Black South African Activist Will Receive Honorary Degree | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Beth Israel Hospital is working on "articulation of our own policy," according to Rabkin. It is trying to determine criteria for competence, and incurable illness. And the hospital staff is closely examining the decision process, "bending over backwards" to preserve the rights of patients and to consider opinions which "cannot...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: A Matter of Life and Death: Who Should 'Pull The Plug'? | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

And Relman adds, "I think in this whole series of court cases, doctors have been made more cautious, and that is not necessarily a good thing." He adds that "the emphasis is in the wrong place here." He feels courts can play a role in ensuring that doctors act responsibly...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: A Matter of Life and Death: Who Should 'Pull The Plug'? | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

Graham's ministry, as his critics have emphasized, became utterly entangled with the powers of this earth. He was close to Richard Nixon for years, but at last grew retchingly ill when he read the transcripts of the White House tapes. After much puzzlement, he blamed Nixon's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Country-Grown Candide | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

To consider sport a metaphor for life is sad. To think of sport as life itself is tragic. None succumb to this delusion more readily than ghetto youth, for whom athletics is both a means of escape and an opportunity for approval. And none have described the process better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aficionado of Failure | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

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