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...addition, while most American women experience some degree of menstrual or pre-menstrual discomfort, only a small number of these have ever reported the kind of rage that would cause an otherwise gentle mother to attack her child. Some question exists, therefore, about whether PMS can be properly classified as a disease at all; other aspects of a woman's physical or emotional health may have a significant impact on how she reacts under menstrual stress...
...Public discomfort over Reagan's perceived lack of commitment to arms control, and over his strategic weapons buildup, has been one of the President's serious political liabilities. The Democrats have sought to capitalize on these fears and capture the antinuclear issue. The bishops' letter is, intentionally or not, highly sympathetic to Democratic positions on nuclear arms. Indeed, the language used in calling for a freeze is nearly identical to a resolution, backed mainly by Democrats, that narrowly failed a House vote (204-202) last August; approved instead was a softer, Administration-backed proposal. Aside from...
...have several options which have been instituted in response to the complaint, notably the opportunity to be served by a BWH nurse-midwife. But for the woman with different and sometimes more complicated medical concerns, help does not appear to be on the way. Rather than let such discomfort grow further, the hospital and the women's committee must pursue their new found cooperation and, at last, settle the facts. Both sides owe the patients involved a real answer on Winig's competence not just a flurry of contracictory statistics...
Unfortunately, the issue that both sides have focused on is easily the most abstruse. The women's initial complaint last April charged that D. Paul I Winig '62 had performed proportionally far too many Caesarian sections. The same letter cited a less quantifiable "consistent pattern" of complaints and discomfort about his practice generally...
...flaws. "I haven't failed at anything of importance," he once said. "I am not capable of addressing failure." Yet he may have known that something was wrong. Two years ago, in Ulster, when DMC's prospects were brightest, John De Lorean confessed to a certain gnawing discomfort with himself. "I am not a good example for other people," he said. "I am not a serene person, nor do I have peace of mind. I am not sure how I got the way I am now, but I am driven by a force, and that is not a good...