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...sound like a reporter the way you do research for these books. What did you do for this one? There was a great deal of legal research involved because it does center around a lawsuit, but I also had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with families that have children who have OI. I would follow these kids around all day. I would go to school with them. I'd go to physical therapy with them. I remember at one home the mom said, "Will you take Matthew out of the car?" I was like, sure...
...There are both practical and philosophical problems with a modern Harkness. Practically, there are fewer tycoons on the scale of Harkness today—and far more legal implications to their donations. Even the $100 million that David Rockefeller donated to Harvard last April—the largest ever single donation by an alumnus—pales in comparison to Harkness’s munificent $155 million. Nevertheless, with Harvard’s centuries of experience fundraising, its numerous wealthy alumni, and its thriving Committee on University Resources such a donation seems, at least, possible...
...trying to level the playing field by increasing opportunities.” Students will participate in the usual hallmark activities of LSAT test-prep services, including logic games and argumentation, but the program will also draw on the sizable resources of Harvard and NYU to bring in legal scholars and practitioners to address the students. Even though the program is closely associated with Harvard and NYU, with both schools providing some funding, it is not aimed at funneling students to those institutions. Rather, it tries to make students competitive applicants to a wide range of top-tier law schools, said...
...lack of imminent death fueled much of the debate in the 2005 case of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman in a vegetative state whose feeding tube was removed - causing eventual death - after a protracted legal and political battle. Schiavo's husband Michael said Terri would not have wanted to be kept alive, while her parents had argued her mental capacity could have improved with therapy. Acorss the Atlantic, Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman in a similar non-responsive state, died in February 2009 under circumstances that mirrored the Schiavo case. While "right-to-die" cases are different than "assisted suicide...
Medical advances may also play into legal arguments. Wolpe says progress has allowed the terminally ill to live longer, but it has transformed dying from something that occurs relatively quickly and painlessly to something more drawn out and potentially agonizing. "So," he says, "some people have decided that if we are going to intervene in the natural act of dying and allow people to live even though disease is rampant in their body, we can't make someone's decision to die the one exception to our meddling." And if assisted suicide remains illegal, Satz says it could force more...