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...unconscionable to write off the deaths of two children as some misguided political gesture or a symptom of societal discontent. While Lezarna's attempt to enfranchise women is a noble one, her reluctance to condemn Smith outright is both an egregious oversight and an oversimplication of an unjust act. Julie R. Cooper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lezama's Claim Oversimplifies | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...regulating chemical messenger -- in order to observe psychotic breakdowns, allegedly without advising them on consent forms of the extreme discomfort and high risk of the undertaking. When Vera Hassner, an advocate for the mentally ill, complained to the project director, she received a letter that stated, "Patients may experience symptom aggravation . . . It would not be advisable to talk to patients about psychosis or relapse . . . Talking to patients about psychosis or schizophrenia might cause unnecessary anxiety . . ." At a recent congressional hearing, Dr. Jay Katz, a bioethicist at Yale University, said, "It is not the patient who may be anxious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madness in Fine Print | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

...about the food. The food is a symptom of everything else," she says. "Food is always going to be a part of everybody's life. Built into recovery is learning how to eat normally without attaching undue significance to the food...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: At Harvard, Eating Disorders Common | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

...this is a symptom of sport, not just soccer. Roger Neilson nearly led the expansion and relatively talent-barren Florida Panthers to the NHL playoffs last year by emphasizing the clutch-and-grab tactics of the neutral zone trap and banking on good goal-tending (i.e. John Vanbiesbrouck) to save them when the trap failed...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Coaching and Clowning Around | 10/15/1994 | See Source »

...course, a certain twisted charm to rainy days. They make the pleasures of a morning spent in bed or a steaming cup of tea (particularly in those fabulous new dining hall mugs) all the more evident. And one could view the endless drizzle and fog as the final symptom of Harvard's incurable institutional Anglophilia...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Rainy | 9/24/1994 | See Source »

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