Word: processers
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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...
...resolution of this most difficult and awesome question--whether potentially life-prolonging treatment should be withheld from a person incapable of making his own decision--as constituting a 'gratuitous encroachment' on the domain of medical expertise. Rather, such questions of life and death seem to us to require the process of detached but passionate investigation, and decision that forms the ideal on which the judicial branch of government was created. Achieving this ideal is our reponsibility and that of the lower court, and is not to be entrusted to any other group purporting to represent the 'morality and conscience...
Alan A. Stone '50, professor of Law and Psychiatry, concurs. He says there is no way that the "court can give more enlightened efforts" than doctors, and that relying on the courts "is an incredibly laborious process," which is not conducive to the "moment-to-moment" decisions that medicine often requires...
...optimists on both sides emphasized the hope that if peace goes forward successfully, the immense military budgets can eventually be reduced. "When we speak about the cost of peace," says an Israeli banking official, "we cannot forget the cost of war." For the present, the "caravan" of the peace process was still advancing: this weekend both Egypt's and Israel's beleaguered but determined leaders will meet to preside over Israel's withdrawal from the city of El Arish in the northern Sinai...
...consider sport a metaphor for life is sad. To think of sport as life itself is tragic. None succumb to this delusion more readily than ghetto youth, for whom athletics is both a means of escape and an opportunity for approval. And none have described the process better than Pat Jordan. His own decline as a professional pitcher was recollected in the poignant autobiography A False Spring. Four years ater, he turns from the diamond to the court to watch basketball players yield to the pressures of ambition, and to the damning testimony of their skills...