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...participation in Harvard athletics has shown us that Kurzman's allegations have no credence whatsoever. In a publication with the high standards of The Harvard Crimson I would have expected a better documented and researched article. Instead, I have found that Kurzman has chosen to merely vent his spleen. In attempting to illustrate what he feels is wrong with Harvard Athletics, all he has shown us is his ignorance. Kevin M. McGinty '87 Robert L. Graff '87 Kevin G. Midwinter...
When Reagan refers to Nicaragua as "a second Cuba," he unknowingly highlights his own acceptance of one such regime. He surely has no plans to topple "the first Cuba." Nicaragua is just an easier target on which he can vent his anti-communist spleen. And, of course, if Nicaragua were half the threat to American security that Reagan makes it out to be, his failure to intervence there long ago would be grounds for impeachment...
...live around it say that sometimes it looks orange. Joanne O'Donnell has lived in the Grove since 1964. All five of the O'Donnell children spent time at the Pastures, she says, and four have had endocrine problems. One daughter had a pituitary tumor; another daughter's spleen was removed last year. Mark, her eldest son, at 27 came down with "some virulent, crazy pneumonia that nobody could figure out." Then a large tumor was found on his pancreas. In 1980 he died...
...news in Houston was the remarkable success of alpha interferon (one of the three major types of the substance) in fighting an unusual cancer known as hairy-cell leukemia (because of the hairy appearance of the malignant cells). The disease is usually treated by removing the patient's spleen, but this seems to help in only about half the cases. For the other half, there was no viable treatment until interferon was tried. Two reports presented at the conference showed that interferon can be effective in up to 90% of hairy-cell patients, greatly reducing or completely reversing all signs...
...injuries he had received to his spleen and colon forced him to spend the next four days in the hospital and the next three weeks on the sidelines. Though he returned to play in four of the Crimson's final five games, including last year's Yale game, he had lost between 15 and 20 pounds and never fully regained his strength...