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...live like this.” In the Schiavo case, the family is forced to argue that Terri should be kept alive because she might “get better”—that is, might be able to regain or to communicate her cognitive processes. The mere assertion that disability (particularly cognitive disability, sometimes called “mental retardation”) is present seems to provide ample proof that death is desirable...
Junior Natalie Darwitz scored a mere 13 seconds into the contest and joined with Kazmaier Award winner Krissy Wendell in dissecting Dartmouth (27-7-0) for a 7-2 win and the chance to repeat as national champs on Sunday...
Talk of being on the cusp of a Harvard renaissance was no longer mere idle speculation. Welch believed—as Leaman had told him—that the Crimson stood on the brink of a return to a new golden...
...shot disparity in the middle frame conjured memories of the Beanpot consolation final, when Boston College held the Crimson to a mere three shots in the second period, while squeezing off 18 of its own in its 4-1 victory...
...only other person (besides Laura Bush) who is closer to Bush than she is: Karen Hughes, Bush's longtime spin doctor in chief. As Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy, Hughes is taking on the difficult task of selling the idea of the U.S. to the Muslim world. But the mere fact that Hughes and Rice will work just steps apart on the State Department's storied seventh floor will make that agency a newly formidable counterweight in policy debates. Meanwhile, the other burr in Powell's saddle, the Pentagon, is having at least as much trouble retaining its ideologues as retaining...