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Adding to the hilarity is the dean of students, Mr. Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), who has decided that Ferris, the darling of his school, has made a fool of him one too many times. Rooney is modeled on a mixture of Inspector Clouseau and his boss, who, as you may remember, in one movie aspired to kill his clueless detective (you even get to hear a refrain of the Pink Panther theme...
SASC member Robert Weissman '88 said that aCambridge health and safety inspector came by inthe past month and affirmed that the shanties werenot violating any city regulations...
...cash." But robbery is not the only price society pays for crack; the state of near psychosis that heavy cocaine use produces leads easily to violence. New York City police have attributed a recent rash of brutal crimes to young addicts virtually deranged by the new drug. According to Inspector William Molinari of the N.Y.P.D.'s narcotics division, there have been seven crack-related homicides in the city this month. In one instance, police say, Victor Aponte, a 16-year-old addict, confessed to stabbing his mother to death after she caught him smoking crack...
...about the cases of Lopez, Balasco and Mamay is that their transgressions were ignored or smoothed over by fellow doctors, including those who are directly responsible for policing the profession. Looking the other way is an unfortunate but time-honored tradition within the medical fraternity. Says Dr. Richard Kusserow, Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): "We have long had a mystical society of physicians; they protect each other's incompetency from the public...
...major report due to be released next month by the Inspector General's office recommends drawing that net tighter. It calls for more cooperation between state boards and the Federal Government and urges higher medical licensing fees to provide more money for enforcement. Kusserow also favors legal immunity for doctors who report incompetent colleagues. Says he: "They need protection from being sued." Galusha would like to see more pressure on hospitals to inform state boards of any internal disciplinary actions. "There should be civil penalties against hospitals if they do not report," he says. Reformers like Sidney Wolfe...