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...have opened up a Pandora's box with your comments on the rich and colorful expressions of the South. The one sticking in my mind since my Army duty in Georgia is: "You're as nervous as a long-tailed cat at a rocking-chair convention...
Kudos to the Wyoming jury who awarded $1.3 million to Margaret Housen for contracting gonorrhea. They have opened a veritable Pandora's box of litigation. Using their scale, contracting syphilis could bring a lucky person $750,000. Thanks to their precedent, purchasing no-fault sex insurance will become mandatory at puberty. Pity the uninsured who must resort to medical treatment rather than cashing in at the courthouse...
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...