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...Boorda was in distress, no one seemed to know. He was a career Navy man, a native of South Bend, Indiana, who enlisted at 17 (lying that he was 18 so he could get in) to escape a troubled childhood and an alcoholic father. He married at 18, and his first child, David, was born with a rare congenital condition that causes a malformation of limbs and organs. (By his fourth birthday, David had had 17 operations.) Boorda served two tours of duty in Vietnam and worked his way up the ranks, commanding surface ships and serving in various Pentagon...
Although Kaplan and Bobrick refused to comment on damages, court documents indicate Bobrick is seeking $450,000 for legal costs, emotional distress and harm done to his reputation and earning capacity. The suit also claims the University didn't pay Bobrick commissions after he was dismissed in March 1993, in violation of his contract...
...their cohorts, it is equally important to remember the deafening silence of a world who refused to act on behalf of the Jewish people in spite of their tremendous ability to do so. If there was one country which the Jews could have turned to in this time of distress, their annihilation could have been stopped, or at least the pace of it could have been slowed. Sadly, this was not the case...
...will be old, infirm and, inevitably at some point, near death. You may or may not be in physical distress, but in an age of crushing health-care costs, you will be a burden to your loved ones, to say nothing of society. And thanks to courts that back in 1996 legalized doctor-assisted suicide for the first time in American history, all around you thousands of your aging contemporaries will be taking their life...
...administration's new policy of total randomization seems at least partially, if not primarily, motivated by feelings of distress caused by the disproportionate number of black and Hispanic students that live in the Quad. Through total randomization of the house selection process, Harvard seeks to increase racial integration in the river houses. I am an African-American graduate student and a resident race-relations tutor at Eliot House, and I would certainly like to see more black students in the river houses. However, I don't believe that forced integration, with no attempt to change the underlying circumstances that caused...