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...pledge to the development office to be utilized in the construction of a student center. Logistically it would be unlikely that such a center could be completed before all current students have graduated. Yet the fact that the council would go out a limb to increase the University's awareness of the student desire for such a center and direct the money towards a venture that would benefit all Harvard undergraduates in years to come, has great potential to fortify the council's shaky position. First, it would indicate to the student body that their interests are indeed the council...
...more than 125 million Americans currently covered by their employer's HMO programs cannot sue their provider for punitive damages. It doesn't matter if the HMO manager is a bumbling idiot or a devious scrooge. It doesn't matter even if the patient dies or loses a limb to negligence...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't want to go out on a limb when they don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
DIED. CLAYTON ("Peg Leg") BATES, 91, one-legged tap dancer; in Fountain Inn, S.C. Bates didn't let an accident that severed his leg at the age of 12 keep him from dancing. Wearing a wooden limb outfitted with metal taps, he hoofed from the 1920s to 1989; appeared in vaudeville, film and TV; performed with musicians such as Louis Armstrong; and made more than 20 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show...
...Golden Globe this year), Fox seems to have decided to attack his condition with the notable combination of faith and science. Last spring, he underwent one of the most aggressive treatments for Parkinson's, a thalamotomy, in which doctors removed the brain cells contributing to Fox's most severe limb tremors. Despite the operation's risk of paralysis or death, he told Walters, "I had full faith in my doctors, and I had full faith...