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...Vautin argues that the administration has been "consistently forthright" in disclosure of environmental hazards. But Harvard's failure to make any reasonable (let alone every possible) effort to inform students of the health risk from Cambridge water testifies to the contrary...
...Pakistan's Prime Minister would end abruptly, probably at the hands of the country's military. Even so, the news came as a shock to Bhutto last week. At 4:30 Monday afternoon, President Ghulam Ishaq Khan telephoned the Prime Minister at her official residence in Islamabad to inform her that he was dismissing her 20- month-old government under Article 58 of the constitution for "internal dissensions" and allegedly "horse trading for personal gain," among other things. "I can't believe it," she said as she hung up the phone. Shortly afterward she saw soldiers take up positions around...
...Hampshire Supreme Court unanimously upheld a woman's right to sue her doctor for failing to inform her that a case of German measles while she was pregnant put her in grave risk of having a child with serious birth defects. The woman contended that if she had received information from her doctors about the potential for birth defects she would have had an abortion. In a separate concurring opinion Souter raised an issue that the full court did not address...
...trial court did not ask whether, or how, a physician with conscientious scruples against abortion, and the testing and counseling that may inform an abortion decision, can discharge his professional obligation without engaging in procedures that his religious or moral principles condemn . . . The court does not hold that some or all physicians must make such a choice between rendering services that they morally condemn and leaving their profession in order to escape malpractice exposure. The defensive significance, for example, of timely disclosure of professional limits based on religious or moral scruples, combined with timely referral to other physicians...
Only a short while into the investigation, Sabich is called into Horgan's office, where several colleagues inform him of their own suspect: Sabich himself. Sabich appears incredulous at the accusation, but enough clues soon surface to indict him and bring him to trial. Because his own blood type matches up with that of the semen found in Polhemus, and fibers from the carpet in his house match those found in her apartment, Sabich must undergo invesigative scrutiny that leaves the viewer unsure about his innocence or guilt until the conclusion...