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...great many years, self-proclaimed critics have delighted in whining about the decline of our collective morality. They say that our culture and civilization is ever more rapidly spiraling towards the depths of history's latrine, and that our only chance for salvation is to heed the call of a few enlightened observers with the foresight to smell what lies before us. The truth is that half the people you meet are "enlightened observers," and that these prophecies of moral doom are based on a major logical fallacy...
...murky limits of both parents' rights and a patient's right to die, Gregory Messenger-the Michigan father charged with manslaughter for having unhooked his severely ill, premature baby from a respirator-was acquitted by a jury. Messenger said he was forced to act after doctors refused to heed the family's wishes. "We did what was best for our baby," said his wife...
...testing the murky limits of parents' rights and a patient's right to die, Gregory Messenger--the Michigan father charged with manslaughter for having unhooked his severely ill, premature baby from a respirator--was acquitted by a jury. Messenger said he was forced to act after doctors refused to heed the family's wishes. ``We did what was best for our baby,'' said his wife...
...also says the seven-member school committee did not heed the viewpoints of working-class parents...
After reading the staff editorial, "Clarke Should Retract Statements" (Nov. 4, 1994), we were left wondering whose free speech? Whites'? Or just whites who contemplate notions of Black inferiority? Unfortunately, The Crimson's staff failed to heed its own words in its treatment of BSA President Kristen Clarke '97, whose challenge of The Bell Curve, by Charles A. Murray '65 and the late Professor Richard Herrnstein ("Blacks Seek an End to Abuse," opinion, Oct. 28, 1994) elicited the staff's condemnation and the kinds of intimidation The Crimson has warned against earlier: Either Clarke would retract her words and issue...