Word: pandora
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Vellucci said he hopes the city's investigation of the area will "open Pandora's box" and reveal that Harvard has been "swallowing up street" and otherwise robbing the city of open space and thoroughfares...
...were outraged; they called the federal regulations "immoral and illegal" violations of the school's "inalienable rights of freedom," and announced that the college would try to find legal ways to resist. Hillsdale President George Roche III also wants to ward off federal encroachment: "That's a Pandora's box we have no wish to open...
...regard to the Quinlan case [Nov. 3]: if the courts were to find in favor of the parents, a Pandora's box would be opened. If the courts were to judge that an act of omission by a physician in not prolonging life is homicide, then every patient who dies could become the basis of legal action against the physician. Such a decision would virtually paralyze the practice of medicine...
...immense story that Richard Collier (The City That Wouldn 't Die, The Sands of Dunkirk) attempts to tell. He has selected perhaps the only popular method possible: a compact narrative out of which the reader may pull facts and anecdotes as if from an endless Pandora's box Of Kleenex...
Until this year, the charge of reverse discrimination has been kept under the table and has not swayed universities from continuing to give preferential treatment to minority applicants. But the Supreme Court finally opened the Pandora's box last November when it agreed to hear a challenge to the system of preferential treatment during its current session...