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...that enough resources can be gathered to pick up this Republican-induced slack. But many other schools with smaller endowments will have to turn students away. Some that have been considering the abandonment of their need-blind admissions policies--even in the Ivy League--might not be able to resist any longer...
...historical commission will likely resist efforts to demolish the buildings because of their historical value, Sullivan wrote in a memo to the advisory committee yesterday...
...expect more of their surgeons. Last year Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City opened a new center for the evaluation of surgical innovation. "With life-threatening illnesses, the pressures are great to try new things," says Annetine Gelijns, the center's director. Her team tries to resist those pressures long enough to consider some tough issues--such as whether there are ways to evaluate new operations that would be faster than the slow but sure process of a scientifically controlled study. For desperately ill patients and the trailblazing doctors who believe they have found new treatments, the answers...
...Wakayama, Japan. From there we were transported by rail to Osaka, where I began a year of Occupation duty. The propriety of the use of the atom bomb to bring about the surrender of the Japanese will be debated endlessly. But one thing is clear: we encountered no resistance as occupiers because the Japanese, a people of great discipline and national pride, responded to the dictates of their Emperor. Had the Emperor asked the Japanese people to resist to the death the invasion of their homeland, they would have done so. And countless numbers on both sides would have died...
Dole's famously cranky wit cannot resist a jab or two. "I didn't think it would happen to me. I thought it happened only to Democrats," he quips. Less predictably, his wry remarks on this April day in 1993, 16 months after surgeons removed his prostate, eventually segue into a discussion of the side effects that keep people from seeking treatment. Despite improvements in surgical technique, the majority of patients suffer at least temporary impotence, and a few also become incontinent. "Unless we talk to each other fairly frankly, we don't learn much in these sessions," he tells...