Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These are difficult questions, and I can't pretend to have an answer to them. However, I react strangely when I hear about the high school All-American hockey player who was just accepted with a 375 verbal SAT score (you get 200 points for signing your name). I don't feel good when I read about hallowed high school athletes who quickly succumb to the pressures of life off the field at Harvard. They withdraw from Cambridge, perhaps never to be heard from again. They come here thinking that it will somehow all fall into place for them...
...debate between doctors and lawyers threatens to heat up once again as a more significant case looms on the Supreme Judicial Court's docket. The court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in September in Hall v. Myers, a case that deals with the appropriateness of euthanasia for any patient, competent or incompetent. It involves a prisoner on renal dialysis who wanted to stop his treatments and be allowed to die. The Suffold Superior Court has ruled that the prison commissioner could force the prisoner to keep taking his life-saving treatment...
...food vendors and the costumes gave a festive air to the protest. For some this confirmed the feeling that what looks like a movement may merely be the rites of spring mixed with a nostalgic search for a new issue. Said Student Charlie Harrison: "I'm here to hear the music." Said Stephanie Klein: "I imagine this is what the '60s were like. It's kind of exciting." But most of those involved saw it differently. Said Pam Libby, who was on one of the 35 buses from Boston: "This was more than a cultural event, more...
Hooray! Let's hear it for the safariing Jerry Brown [April 23], who doesn't sneak around in his private life or feel that any political decision once made is irrevocable. What a historic achievement it would be to have a self-made woman like Linda Ronstadt presiding over the White House...
Thirsty to hear French but a bit rusty, audiences tend to turn up at the theater sensibly bearing the original text or Rich ard Wilbur's fine translation. To help with the language barrier, the Comédie offers headsets and simultaneous translations into serviceable though clubfooted English prose. The effect is a bit like watching a movie under water. Anyone who possibly can should read the play in French beforehand, then sit back and let the long lines roll down the centuries and over...