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...state does not allow a woman to be sovereign over her own body, she will never attain equal status in society. Without that fundamental right, no other is safe...
...sentiment is mild compared with some of today's reviews. Doctor bashing has become a blood sport. To judge by the popular press, which generally lacks Shaw's subtlety, too many physicians who are not magicians are charlatans. The ^ air of the operating room, where once the doctor was sovereign, is now so dense with the second guesses of insurers, regulators, lawyers, consultants and risk managers that the physician has little room to breathe, much less heal. Small wonder that the doctor-patient relationship, once something of a sacred covenant, has been infected by the climate in which it grows...
...Criticism of Israel is a healthy sign of democracy; few people criticize Israel more than the Israelis. Yet such criticism should not be waged indiscriminately, as Sharfstein suggest. Jews and non-Jews must judge Israel according to the same standard applied to the United States and to every other sovereign nation in the world...
...policy. A compassionate nation must always probe for any opportunity to win freedom for any of its citizens held hostage. But substantive negotiations with terrorist bands would only swell their prestige and seem to legitimize their bloody operations. Thus the U.S. is fully ) justified in negotiating only with the sovereign governments that back terrorists, even though that policy may result in dragging out the captivity of the hostages for agonizing months. Accounts differ as to how much control Iran has over the Muslim extremists in Lebanon. West German experience indicates that it is strong but not absolute; Bonn officials hint...
...name only. In less than an hour, a handful of top military men had named President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Chile's ruler of 15 years, as the only candidate in an Oct. 5 plebiscite. Pinochet appeared on the balcony of the presidential palace and urged citizens to keep Chile "sovereign and free...