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Manson says she considers the field of medicine a noble pursuit...
...fascinating as a way to combine service to society with an intellectual pursuit," she says of her research in women's health. "It is exciting playing a role in trying to get the answers to medical questions. These are historic and unprecedented studies...
There is another precedent that President Clinton might cite but almost certainly won't. In 1974, run out of office and with his enemies still in pursuit, Richard Nixon faced disbarment too. Voluntarily, at his own instigation, Nixon relinquished his California law license. (He tried to do the same in New York, but the lawyers there wanted the fun of disbarring him themselves.) By sparing himself and his country a great deal of unpleasantness and embarrassment, Nixon performed an act of unaccustomed grace--class, even. A judge may soon decide whether President Clinton has the ethics of an Arkansas lawyer...
...have witnessed the fall of communism in the past decade. Next we may be seeing the fall of capitalism in the Federal Government's pursuit of Microsoft [NATION, May 8]. I suggest that Bill Gates buy an island or a small country, move his facilities there and create a Hong Kong West, dedicated to free enterprise. Maybe the Federal Government would treat Microsoft better if it were to export to the U.S. My only hope is that the new country would have room for people who know that capitalism is what made this country great. EDWARD M. LANING Oak Hills...
...year dictatorship. Pinochet eluded a court date in Spain earlier this year when the British government ruled he was too ill to stand trial, and sent him home, where the general had presumed the immunity he'd authored as a condition for restoring democracy would protect him from further pursuit...