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Students and Department of Athletics officials expressed concern this week over the growing violence displayed in intramural street hockey games. Last week, two athletes in Harvard's varsity program were rushed to the hospital with facial wounds...
...arms and begins to conduct. A hundred arms are set in rhythmic motion and music fills the hall. The roar grows louder as the chorus begins singing St. John's Passion. Rick snaps pictures rapidly. He switches to his long lens for closeups of Caldwell. From the balcony her facial features are indistinguishable--only the reflection of the chandelier lights in her glasses can be discerned as she bobs her head up and down in time to her deliberate hand motions...
...cases involves Dr. Eugene R. Balthazar, the founder of a highly regarded free clinic in Aurora, Ill. (TIME, Jan. 26), who was accused of malpractice by a woman treated for a facial malignancy. Though the patient's suit was tossed out of court, Balthazar and a colleague felt that they had been needlessly harassed. Charging "reckless disregard for the truth" and malicious prosecution, they are seeking only nominal damages of $2 from the woman but $20,600 from her two lawyers. Another Illinois doctor has taken a different stance: he has charged a patient's lawyer with barratry...
Taxi Driver, Scorsese's latest effort, is a much tauter, much more disciplined work. Without sacrificing any of the authenticity of his feel for the subject, Scorsese controls the tension of the movie; he's constantly holding something back. The violence is always there, murmuring relentlessly in the facial expressions of Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro), in the sweltering New York City streets, but Scorsese restrains it, draws us ever closer to the explosion then retreats, telling us smilingly, "No, it's not time yet." And we wait anxiously for deliverance...
...most satisfying tribute is from his own patients, who eagerly do anything they can to please him -scrubbing floors, washing windows, even baking casseroles for his lunch. In fact, when a woman patient recently sued him for malpractice (because of a scar left by the successful treatment of a facial malignancy), other patients were incensed. "Around here," said one, "suing Dr. Bal is like suing God." Balthazar, who refuses to carry malpractice insurance, easily won his case...