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...consciously try to justify the war. But because the film does not treat the war as one made by men, for real and imagined reasons, with real and terrifying effects, it misses the most important and neglected events which are happening in Vietnam. The film allows the audience to react to the torture and the blood with abstract shock, as it might to a primitive ritual, and thereby encourages the illusion that we are not really in Vietnam, and that the suffering is very far away...
While doctors themselves are ready to admit that they can make mistakes, they generally react to criticism by pointing out that their patients 1) are getting just about the best medical care anywhere, and 2) are foolishly sentimental about the "old days." The U.S. will spend an estimated $44 billion on its medical care this year, and is currently spending over $1 billion in research. Its surgical skills and lab techniques are unsurpassed. As for complaints about the decline in home care, most doctors frankly think that the oldtime house call was largely a waste of time. They point...
...strengthen Harvard's first doubles, Barnaby has teamed Gonzalez with Brian Davis, a powerful off-hand player with sharp volleys and lightning reflexes. Barnaby has tried this combination twice in team matches, but they may not have played together long enough to react in co-ordination like the Yale or Dartmouth pairs. Adelsberg and Kileff -- the slugger and the runner -- form Harvard's incongruous second doubles team...
House of Jargon. Professors who profess with the passion of Athos, Scully and the eight others on TIME'S cover are enjoying new glory on nearly every college and university campus in the U.S., as academic administrators react to complaints that they have neglected teaching. To too many youngsters, it appears that those castles of knowledge they thought they were entering have turned out to be cardboard houses built of professorial jargon, Ph.D. pretentiousness, preoccupation with tenure and personal prestige...
Only the Truth. If Joe refuses to admit statutory rape, for example, the interrogator can always claim that the girl is accusing him of forcible rape. Result: "The subject will usually react immediately by making a denial of any force, while at the same time admitting the act of intercourse itself." If Joe still refuses to talk, "point out the incriminating significance of his refusal." Indeed, the law assumes that failure to deny a serious accusation is unnatural, and therefore a sign of guilt, known as an "adoptive admission." As one judge put it: "If you say anything, it will...