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Areeda, who died of leukemia on December 24, was best known for his 10-volume treatise Antitrust Law, a standard in the field...
SEVEN YEARS AGO, WHEN I WAS 16 AND suffered with leukemia, I had a wish granted by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. I chose to visit my favorite team, the Los Angeles Lakers, and meet my hero, Earvin ("Magic") Johnson. I can't tell you how much it meant to me and my recovery to meet him. He spoke with me in the locker room, and I had my picture taken with him. Beforehand, I was nervous, but he took control of the situation and made it comfortable. Afterward, I felt as if we were friends, that I could just...
...with complex and emotionally wrenching diseases such as cancer. The inability to get things done quickly can be "horrendous," he says. Recently he needed three or four weeks of effort--"I'm calling every few days, my receptionist is calling, the family is getting nervous"--just to get a leukemia patient an evaluation at an advanced research center. "That's a big difference now," he says. "Patients five years ago didn't have to jump up and down and scream and say, 'I really want this treatment, please get me this referral, what's taking so long?' That never happened...
Langdell Professor of Law Phillip E. Areeda '51, one of the country's foremost experts on antitrust law, died on December 24 at Harvard's Stillman Infirmary of leukemia...
Last night's benefit performance was the first of three scheduled for this weekend. All proceeds from the event support the Jimmy Fund's efforts to combat childhood cancer and leukemia...