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Members of the committee--including medical doctors and legal scholars--said that the drawbacks of required AIDS testing in states where there have been few cases outweigh the advantages of such legislation...
...devastating. And critics of mass testing question the ethics of informing people who are practicing safe sex, like Student Souleles, that they have been exposed. "You're handing people an explosion in their lives," says Judith Cohen, a University of California at San Francisco epidemiologist. Says Souleles: "The risks outweigh the benefits of finding out. I can deal with it fine on this level...
Both Belmonte and Tomassoni admit that the advantages of recruiting for Harvard far outweigh the disadvantages. ECAC coaches who have to come up against Harvard in the recruiting wars also concede that Harvard has the inside track when it comes to landing a fine player...
...sight. One New York bank last month wrote off as a bad debt $40 million of the $257 million it is owed by Mexico. A consortium of 200 U.S. banks is delaying the transfer of funds for a $7 billion loan. Says a foreign banker: "In 1987 spending will outweigh any prudence." That is unlikely to reassure many leery Mexicans. For most, the yearning for a better life is tempered by the knowledge that things can -- and probably will -- get much worse...
...essential problem with Mr. Graham's argument is that he feels such matters of expediency and pleasantry should outweigh considerations of justice. formalized procedures may indeed create problems, and they may seed an unnecessary burden to administrators and faculty members who claim that they are already pressed for time. In truth, however, thing are the other way around, and expediency must give way to justice...