Word: musts
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Balance is the key word here. Excellence in athletics can go hand in hand with excellence in the classroom, but one cannot sacrifice one for the other. Sports must continue to be an extension of the learning and maturation process at Harvard, and not an end in itself or a vehicle for alumni to recall vicariously their past glories...
...involved a medical question, and it would be a dangerous precedent for courts to interfere with doctors' traditional autonomy in such matters. They argued that society has given the medical profession the responsibility of determining the efficacy of treatments and a patient's chances of survival, and thus they must be the ones to make the right-to-die decision...
...Rabkin '51, general director of Beth Israel Hospital and associate professor of Medicine, says, unlike most of his colleagues, that "the Saikewicz decision was a wise one." But he, too, feels that doctors read the ruling too strictly--that every time one wants to withhold treatment from incompetents, one must seek the court's approval. Rabkin feels this is not appropriate for a dying patient...
...This country eats up elites for breakfast," he explains. "Yet it's necessary to preserve some kind of quality-quality of education, of birth, of leadership, whatever," An early and tough critic of the Carter Administration, Kraft is not universally popular, but is must reading in Washington. He uses a priceless list of elite sources to compile his thrice-weekly column (syndicated by Field Enterprises to 250 newspapers) and frequent magazine articles (usually for The New Yorker). Kraft writes from a comfortable study in his Georgetown home, but he travels so incessantly that his office is more often some...
...director who brought us Death Wish and The Sentinel, is relatively mild. It lacks his usual slavering interest in gore, grotesquery and sadism-though there is one signature episode in which a man is tortured by being doused in blood and dunked in shark-infested waters. One must add, however, that Winner has perhaps exceeded him self in witlessness...