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...delighted [by Murray's award] for manyreasons," said Med School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson'44. "First, it celebrates a magnificent discoveryof a way to benefit millions of people throughoutthe world suffering from kidney failure. Second,it celebrates a kind of research that is ofenormous importance for the future of medicine.Third, and in many ways most important, is the[fine] character of the recipient...
Mannus is the last of the believable med school students. Haunted by a death in her childhood, she displays a disconcerting interest in the topic. Mannus is a key player in the story's sexual politics, and universally lusted. So lusted, in fact, that the men chivalrously take turns dying before she does. But her nagging fear that her patients will not have "a good place" to go eventually compels her to become party to an experiment she once opposed...
...group of "flatliners" is rounded out by Joe Hurley (William Baldwin) and Randy Steckle (Oliver Platt), who comprise the body of the film's unlikely, supposedly promising med school students. Hurley spends too much time having sex with women and making illicit films of the act to study medicine, let alone cure patients, and Steckle, who constantly records conversations and events, longs to be a writer. Their motives for attending med school are unclear, and apart from the standard motives of fame and fortune, the audience is at a loss to explain their role in the experiments...
...there are few dog-eared tomes from a hundred years ago to consult on the divisive issues of today. Liberals are worried that just as Souter spurns gold chains and Club Med vacations, he will also eschew the "penumbras" emanating from the Constitution that activist judges have used to find heretofore unknown protections -- like the guarantee of privacy, which underlies Roe v. Wade's right to abortion. New Hampshire Governor Judd Gregg predicts that "Souter won't graft current ideas or social concerns onto constitutional law." In a dissent he wrote in 1986, Souter said "the court's interpretive task...
...capitalism brings new wealth and competitive pressure to Eastern Europe, many people may decide to head for the beach. To accommodate them, Paris-based Club Med plans to open a resort next year on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria (pop. 9 million). The facility will include a 600-room hotel and will share a golf course with a twelve-year-old Club Med in a nearby town. Says Jean-Luc Oizan-Chapon, Club Med's chief operating officer: "We were here before the doors were open, and now our time has come...