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...programs 2 to 1. Some public-health officials fear that the concentration on cures has been at the expense of educating Americans who remain at risk -- primarily blacks and Hispanics of the inner cities of the East. Thus the epidemic in those ghettos is likely to grow. Says Samuel Thier, president of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine: "We should have known that focusing largely on treatment after infection would not be an adequate long-range strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The AIDS Political Machine | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...sympathy for their cause; vocal opposition to Israeli policy makes the point clear enough. But the willingness to equate the Jews so quickly with other groups threatens the core of the Holocaust's meaning. Jews should be especially vigilant against oppression and racism of any kind precisely because of thier people's unique experience...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The Meaning of Never Forget | 4/27/1989 | See Source »

...buffets of desire and regret cause suffering which lingers unrelieved and is, in fact, visibly controlled. Rarely does a character say "Well look, I love you." Dialogue is employed sporsely, and is often hesitantly mundane, as if the conversants had only recently recovered the use of thier tongues after an enforced silence, and weren't exactly sure what should be said. Humor is a welcome leavening in such situations, and Bobbie Ann Mason's "Graveyard Day" is particularly adept at keeping readers alert...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: Book of the Bleak | 11/4/1983 | See Source »

...term to insure those classes will be taught in accessible rooms. But as Chertkov asks, "If you can't visit a class, how can you know if you want to take it?" She also notes that if a disabled student decides to enroll in a course not on thier pre-registration list, the Registrar's office discourages the change. Thus, Harvard's pre-registration policy for handicapped students denies equal freedom of academic inquiry to disabled students...

Author: By Allen S. Weiner, | Title: Disabled Students | 3/9/1983 | See Source »

Rather than fuel conflict the Crimson itself could set a standard of more publicity for PBH and its many good works. If this is an example of investigate reporting the CrimeEds should do more homework and do thier share to advance important social causes. Ralph N. Wharton, M.D. '53 New York, New York

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Publicize PBH | 11/5/1982 | See Source »

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