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...hospitals participating in the new initiative are Brigham and Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Mass. General Hospital...
Dunaif is also chief of the Division of Women'sHealth at Brigham and Women's Hospital and anassociate professor of medicine at HMS. Sachs alsoserves as chair of the Department of Obstetricsand Gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess MedicalCenter and professor of obstetrics, gynecology andreproductive biology at HMS.CrimsonMatthew P. MillerA HELPING HAND:Dr. ANDREA E. DUNAIF(left), Dr. ELEANOR G. SHORE and Dr. BENJAMIN P.SACHS (inset) run the National Center ofExcellence for Women's Health at Harvard MedicalSchool...
...threats to the fundamental human rights of the Palestinians of the area, specifically the right to free speech and association, the right to a fair trial and the right not to be tortured. The Memorandum's disproportionate emphasis on the Palestinian Authority's "security obligations" to the state of Israel relegates Palestinian rights to an afterthought. In a place where Palestinian homes are still summarily demolished and their land casually expropriated if a household member is even suspected to be linked to an act of violence, the lack of an explicit mention of the human rights of Palestinians...
...Memorandum requires that the Palestinian side pursues a policy of "zero tolerance for terror and violence" and "take all measures necessary in order to prevent acts of terrorism, crime and hostilities," thereby subordinating the human rights of Palestinians in the name of Israel's arguably overstated security imperative. Indeed, Human Rights Watch has found that since the signing of the Memorandum two weeks ago, there have been widespread instances of torture of Palestinians during interrogations as well as unfair trials...
...Netanyahu sees the agenda for a Palestinian National Council session to be addressed by President Clinton in December as a deal breaker. The Israelis insist the PNC must vote to excise anti-Israel clauses from its charter; the Palestinians (with Washington concurring) say they already have, and don't intend to vote again. "The only reason to repeat the vote would be because the Israelis are telling them to," says Beyer. "It's an issue of dignity -- the Palestinians can't be expected to do whatever the Israelis say, no matter how ridiculous." So who needs Hamas? The peace process...