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Frustrated and embittered, Harrison dropped out of the four-year program after seven months. She vents her anger in her newly published A Woman in Residence (Random House; $13.95), blending diatribe with diary notes she kept during her training. At its crux is Harrison's contention that "physicians are trained and conditioned to see patients as objects to be assembled and reassembled...
...advisers. Just as the beleaguered Prime Minister was considering when to launch a counterinvasion of the Falklands, her partners in the European Community last week gave Britain first a diplomatic slap and then subjected it to a humiliation that shook the ten-nation Community to its institutional roots. The crux of the problem, as French President François Mitterrand put it, was not just "what role Great Britain intends to play" in the Community, but "the question of the presence or the nature of the presence of Great Britain in the Community...
...report's argument that only large-scale industry, on the Soviet model, can mass-produce the toxins. Argues Biochemist James Bamburg of Colorado State University: "You can do it in your basement or a converted dog kennel." What most concerns scientific skeptics is that the physical samples, the crux of the Government's case, are few in number and have been gathered in haphazard fashion. Notes Ecologist Arthur Westing of Hampshire College, who chaired a panel on chemical weapons at a January meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: "You don't know...
...writing this letter because Kelly Goode's article in The Crimson has moved me to tell what I believe to be the crux of the issue of abortion as it is peculiar to the Harvard-Radcliffe community. I am very sincere in my conviction that abortion needs to be taken out of the shadows to which it has been removed in fear and shame and from which recesses it can only be perceived of as guilt-ridden, treacherous and murdering and which for the woman who has chosen abortion have become a series of stopping places on an arduous journey...
...This is the crux of the problem, the trauma, the pain. What do you think will be our position if there is a white exodus from Zimbabwe, which is not out of the question, and those people tell the public in South Africa and in Namibia what happened to them? That's why I have said that events in Zimbabwe constitute perhaps the single most important obstacle [to a settlement...