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...find no basis for attacking the pardon legally. It would be improper for me to comment one way or the other as to whether I approve or disapprove of it from a personal standpoint...
...process is not finished," she said. "I don't know what the end result will be. From my standpoint now, it just doesn't make sense to have a comment...
...safe and quiet." The 20 are members of the Boston Community Media Committee, a group founded six years ago largely to promote more sensitive coverage of minority-group affairs. More important than the statement, the executives agreed to downplay any incidents of violence. "We went about it from the standpoint of our civic responsibility," recalls Lamont Thompson, New England area vice president for Westinghouse Broadcasting. "We made a very strong commitment to the mayor that although we would cover the totality of the news, there would be no inflammatory material, and unpleasant incidents would be written up judiciously...
Should they be tried, though, the doctors appear prepared to argue their innocence on all fronts, from a possible refutation of Flanagan's simple grave-robbing case, to a complicated justification of their alleged conduct from a medical ethics standpoint. Chayet said last week that a "number" of researchers--none of whom he would name--had offered to testify for the defense, and that as a result the defense's stance on medical ethics would be "formidable and considerable." The motions do imply, however, that the lawyers expect the trial debate to descend into an argument over the abortion issue...
Then, in the first few months here, everybody comes perilously close to being a Nobody, and problems develop. Nobody here is impressed by the fact that they go to Harvard. Having gotten accustomed to dealing with life from the standpoint of being The Best, a lot of Harvard freshmen immediately lose their focus when they come here. They no longer have any distinguishing characterisitcs...