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...with a demonstrated tendency to be abusive to—and unable to work with—professional women.” The suit alleges that Fischer once even slapped a female nurse. During his time at Beth Israel, the suit alleges that Fischer’s habit of demeaning female co-workers continued. In the complaint, Warfield says that Fischer treated her and her female staff with disrespect, citing an instance where Fischer allegedly screamed at a female anesthesiologist in public. Paul F. Levy, the president of Beth Israel, is also a defendant in the suit, which...
...used to restrict private meetings between male and female students. According to his children, Stewart, who in 1957 wrote a letter to The Crimson celebrating the “gentlemanly conduct” and “integrity” of a member of the janitorial staff, had a habit of seeing the heroic side of people who lived their lives far from public view. Stewart, his daughter said, once sent his three children a reminder of some of the great role models they had known: “a cook, a housekeeper, and a cowboy we knew well somewhere...
Father Flynn takes three lumps of sugar in his tea, likes singing “Frosty the Snowman,” and has a habit of keeping his fingernails long. For Sister Aloysius, the principal of a Bronx Catholic school, that is sufficient evidence to doubt his moral integrity. The Loeb Experimental Theater provides the intimacy necessary for a compelling production of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece, “Doubt: A Parable,” which will run through March 8. Under the expert direction of Sara L. Wright ’09, every...
...long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right," wrote Thomas Paine when he called for civil disobedience against monarchy - the flawed national policy of his day. In a similar spirit, we offer a small idea that is, perhaps, no small idea. It will not solve the drug problem, nor will it heal all civic wounds. It does not yet address questions of how the resources spent warring with our poor over drug use might be better spent on treatment or education or job training, or anything else that might begin to restore...
...this outlook, which its adherents often contrast with the cynicism of their elders, cannot hope to live up to expectations. The art of politics demands prudence—the rational faculty that determines, in a given situation, what is possible and practicable. Experience, habit, and keen observation help develop this faculty—an unadorned albeit indomitable hope is only a lazy substitute...