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...people. Nixon's management methods brought us Watergate. Ford and Carter were weak as people managers. Reagan presided over some outlandish administrative arrangements last year, but the machinery is now running better. An awareness of gaps in his own knowledge and concerns should enter the President's criteria for his staff appointments. Self-knowledge without self-doubt is admittedly...
...stirred to consciousness, Clark signaled Surgeon William DeVries that he was not in pain. For DeVries, 38, that satisfying moment was the culmination of the three years he had spent perfecting the technique that made the implant possible, and waiting for a patient who met the rigorous criteria established for implant candidates by the Food and Drug Administration. No wonder DeVries described the 7½-hr. operation as being "almost a spiritual experience...
...traditional conditions for a morally justifiable war, which are generally accepted by non-Catholics as well as Catholics, are that it be declared by a legitimate authority, for a righteous cause, with good intention, as a last resort, and waged with limited means. The two criteria for conduct of a just war that are especially pertinent to today's nuclear debate are "discrimination" (no direct killing of innocent civilians) and "proportion" (a war's devastation must not exceed the evil it seeks to overcome). Nuclear pacifists argue that these two factors necessarily rule out atomic warfare...
...answer is: little if anything. The analysts who evaluate and rank places lean entirely on objective criteria that play a relatively small role among the influences that determine where people make their homes. For one thing, the big majority of the world's people are born into the places that remain their homes for life. In the U.S., almost 64% of the people live today in the states in which they were born. It is safe to assume that few of those made a prenatal choice of birthplace on the basis of economic, political, social and cultural factors such...
...poll results are very meaning full. It's telling the faculty to abandon the tried and true criteria and to become more bold in its hiring practices." William Hunter, a Law School Student Council member, said last week...