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...newspaper reporters do their homework when they report on Dr. Vernon Mark's suggestions about involking 18th century laws to track down possible carriers of the AIDS virus and confining people who are found to have the virus to the former leper colonies on Penikese Island off Cape Cod? The Boston Globe identified him only as a Harvard professor and so did The Crimson. More relevant than his Harvard affiliation, perhaps, is the fact that in the early 1970's Dr. Mark proposed mandatory psychosurgery (lobotomy) for Blacks who participated in ghetto riots or who were incarcerated for violent crimes...
...reply is unprintable, and the conversion usually ends in the middle of it, nearly shattering the receiver, and leaving the student feeling dirty and violated as if he has just been kissed by a leper. First, he will angrily interrogate his roommates, demanding to know who's been writing his number in the bathrooms, at Logan Airport. Then, he will rush to the windows and look around the Yard to see if anyone if standing outside staring up at him, "Halloween" style. Only when he mentions the proposition to an upperclassman, or accuses him of making it, does he learn...
They needed whatever friends they had. The gnomic initials P.R.B., appended without explanation to their signatures in the 1850s, had the combined effect on many critics of a red flag and a leper's bell. "Monstrously perverse," was a typical comment. "Plainly revolting," was another. Charles Dickens, no less, saw "a hideous, wrynecked, blubbering, red-haired boy in a nightgown, who appears to have received a poke ... and to be holding it up for the contemplation of a kneeling woman, so horrible in her ugliness, that she would stand out from the rest of the company as a monster...
According to the EPA, its tests show that ocean burning has no discernible effects on air quality or marine life. The cost is approximately half that of onshore destruction. Opponents, however, brand all incinerator craft "leper ships." They point out that six European nations that have burned wastes on North Sea ships for more than a decade are talking about ending the practice. Concerned scientists contend that it may not be possible to maintain the required 2,400° F heat under seagoing conditions. This could allow the escape of dangerous emissions like dioxins. Those poisons would infect fish, opponents...
...Stick with your client when he gets to jail, he needs you," he said. He described his position as a former lawyer in prison as being like a "doctor in a leper colony...