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...help mortally ill patients end their lives--has been moving toward center stage at least since 1990, when the court, in Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health, established a patient's right to be taken off life support. In 1991, Quill, a New York physician, wrote in a medical journal about assisting a suicide. Meanwhile, retired Michigan pathologist Jack Kevorkian began a string of assisted or supervised deaths that now stands at 46. Three times Michigan authorities charged Kevorkian with murder, and thrice juries cleared him. Oregon voters seemed of similar mind when, in 1994, they passed a referendum allowing...
Perhaps he’s right, but if The Analyst dilutes its mission with such a populist approach, it will forfeit its niche as Harvard College’s academic finance journal. The magazine will lose its identity, a rare commodity when you’re one of three business publications on a relatively small college campus. Harvard Investment Magazine, after all, which has been around since 2003, describes its purpose in terms remarkably similar to The Analyst’s, promising to blend “professional articles, interviews, and academic research to offer a comprehensive array of commentary...
...right thing for the University to do. Although Harvard’s primary mission is educational and academic, Harvard is also a community of nearly 35,000 and an employer of over 15,000, making it the fifth largest employer in all of Massachusetts, according to the Boston Business Journal. Beyond the philanthropic and noble ends of raising funds, matching donations when there is a community outcry helps build morale, which is why many businesses across the country had a similar matching program for their employees. Donating to causes of extreme humanitarian concern is also consistent with the University?...
...DIED. JACK WHITE, 63, reporter for the Providence Journal whose 1973 story on Richard Nixon's underpayment of income taxes won the Pulitzer Prize and prompted Nixon, who ultimately paid more than $400,000 in back taxes, to utter the famous line, "I am not a crook"; on Cape Cod, Massachusetts...
...pertussis, or whooping cough, among U.S. teens and adults that could be prevented each year with a booster vaccination. Most children, for whom the long-lasting coughing illness can be fatal, get several pertussis shots by age 6, but immunity wears off. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine says one extra shot for teens and adults would do the trick...