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...President has a well-deserved reputation on tough issues for trying to have it both ways--or three or four ways. And on welfare reform, his "I'm all for it, but..." approach had been getting results. Twice he had vetoed Republican bills as harsh and punitive; both times the Republican Congress responded by stripping out provisions the President found most objectionable. Finally, although Dole desired a third veto he could decry during the campaign, Republican members of Congress concluded they would be better off telling constituents they had actually got an important and popular reform written into law. They...
...cannot afford to continue without making concrete attempts to change the course of rape and sexual assault. As Harvard students, we are removed from many of the harsh realities facing the average citizen, but this is one area where we are no less affected. Last year a Harvard student was sexually assaulted on Memorial Drive, and this semester alone several incidents of sexual assault have been reported in Cambridge. While the number of cases of "date rape" are unknown, based on national statistics it undoubtedly occurs here. The Harvard administration does not make available records on the number of rapes...
...enemies--and to doubt our frequent feelings of moral superiority, our illusion of clarity. ("You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye; and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.") Other religions also preach universal love and harsh self-scrutiny. Buddha said, "The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of one's self is difficult to perceive...
...Maureen Dever-Bumba, a nurse-practitioner and director of the Kutztown Student Health Center in Pennsylvania, the harsh truth about nursing today hit close to home. After her 72-year-old grandfather was admitted to a hospital with terminal cancer, a technician carelessly gave him medicine that caused disorientation. "He was confused and imagined that he saw bugs on people," says Dever-Bumba, who has been in the nursing profession for 18 years. She remarks, "The care was so bad my entire family had to become nurses for my grandfather because no one else was around to help. The public...
...often in a press report deriding it as an ineffectual bureaucracy or a commentary on its shortcomings in the field of peacekeeping. The cumulative effect of many such articles is an overwhelmingly negative view of the UN and even leads to questions regarding the necessity of its existence. Such harsh verdicts focus too heavily on its failures and ignore the very real achievements of the past 51 years...