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...doctor's unflinching account, published anonymously in the Jan. 8 Journal of the American Medical Association, was the first such confession ever to appear in a U.S. medical journal. With stark candor and dramatic detail, it spotlighted one of U.S. medicine's most controversial issues: the extent to which American doctors commit mercy killings. The report has prompted a storm of protest and a flurry of letters to J.A.M.A., most of which were from physicians who condemned the resident's behavior as both illegal and unethical. New York City Mayor Edward Koch was so horrified by the J.A.M.A. account that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Doctor Decided on Death | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

However, unjust restrictions on minority admissions do exist at Harvard and at universities nationwide. The stark difference between the 13.3 percent acceptance rate of Asian students and the 17.0 percent rate of their white peers makes this fact undeniably clear. To understand why, examine closely the factors the Admissions Office statement gave for the lower Asian-American rate: a relative absence of legacy parents and a slight deficiency in high school extracurricular activity...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Asian-American Admissions: | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

...wars start? The thousands of books and articles on the Widener shelves are a stark testament to the frustrations of generations of scholars working away at the origins of this or that...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Cameloss of Courage | 2/9/1988 | See Source »

...most astonishing revelation of the transcripts is the sharp contradiction between the hard historical evidence and the statements of Kennedy's former advisers. While a certain allowance must be made for the failings of memory, these disparities are too stark and too shockingly recurrent to be explained away. The good men of Camelot have deliberately altered the public record of the Crisis to create an image of President Kennedy as a cool, tough leader who saved the Free World from the encroachments of communism--instead of a dovish Kennedy who sought the easiest way to resolve the Crisis...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Cameloss of Courage | 2/9/1988 | See Source »

...photos in the travel brochure promise exotic scenes of rare beauty: coarse sand beaches curve seamlessly toward the horizon; delicate, silk-draped women smile alluringly. But upon landing at an eerily empty Tan Son Nhut airport, there is no escaping the stark reminders of conflicts past: the olive-drab Chinook helicopters, C-130s and C-47s lie cheek by cowl off the tarmac. This is no Club Med. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, a recent and tentative entrant in the lucrative global sweepstakes known as the tourist industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Welcome Back to Viet Nam | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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