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...terrifying, wait until you hear my story." One distinguished professor of medicine whose wife was hospitalized in a great university hospital was too frightened to leave her bedside. "I felt that if I was not there, something awful would happen to her," he told Berwick. "I needed to defend her from the care...
...game action.”Harvard will hit the stretch run of its Ivy League schedule with a pair of home doubleheaders against Brown this weekend.And then on Tuesday, the Crimson will play at Fenway Park, one of baseball’s storied venues, for a chance to defend its city-wide bragging rights.The Crimson will meet Boston College, which beat UMass 11-3 in last night’s Fraser Field nightcap.“It’s going to be unbelievable under the lights out there,” Wilson said. “It?...
...Ross G. Douthat ’02, now a reporter at the Atlantic Monthly, chronicled the campus event, which featured an invited speaker who accused conservatives of wanting “to lock up pregnant black women.” She then compared a law permitting a woman to defend herself against a would-be rapist with a woman’s right not to be besieged by “the aggressive fetus”—two sides of the same coin.At the somber candlelight vigil meant to be an occasion for victims to share their personal...
...architects of abusive interrogation undoubtedly feel that it is the best way to defend the U.S. against terrorist attacks, but their policy is short-sighted. It has been widely noted that U.S. interrogation abuses generate rage and a desire for revenge that is a boon to terrorist recruiters. Applying Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s famous metric, the administration may well be generating more terrorists than it is stopping. But there are two other consequences to U.S. interrogation policy that are less frequently noted...
...billion in 2005. Ideally, Hu would also like to hear a reaffirmation from Bush that Washington rejects any moves by Taiwan's maverick President Chen Shui-bian toward a declaration of independence from the mainland. But whatever Bush says about Taiwan, which the U.S. has pledged to help defend, Hu's most important achievement in Washington may simply be turning up. "From a domestic Chinese point of view," says the Carnegie's Pei, "you have not really established your credentials as a leader until you have been received on the south lawn of the White House with all due pomp...