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...Revel's view, Communism does not evolve; it only makes strategic adjustments. "Stalinism is the essence of Communism," he writes. "What changes is not the Stalinist system but the rigor with which it is applied." Since a regime cannot shoot or imprison every one year after year, a relaxation of repression or an increase in consumer goods may work better for a time. But "Khrushchev and Brezhnev are no less Stalinist than Stalin . . . They are merely less bloodthirsty...
Doctors are not alone in their disapproval of a court's involvement in the case. "Some decisions are beyond the law's competence to make with any rigor or confidence in being right," says University of Chicago Law Professor Franklin Zimring. Questions of this kind are often decided outside the courtroom, according to Stanley Price, an attorney who also lectures at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health. Price believes that the Quinlan case has become a cause célèbre mainly because of doctors' growing concern over malpractice suits, which...
...Rigor Mortis...
...Campbell and [Captain Bill] Okerman met the early challenge really well," McCurdy said. "At the mile, though, with the team race already out of hand, Campbell could go no further, and toiled the rest of the way. Okerman, who is staging a deadly war with rigor mortis, dropped out after two miles...
...that was to take Soc Sci 2 and Nat Sci 90, a couple of famous, high-pressured Gen Ed courses--famous outside Harvard for their academic rigor and excellence, famous inside Harvard for their tendency to destroy freshman year...