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...review process is complete and does issue that a case is thoroughly investigated before punishment is moved out. But in some cases, the safeguards against capricious board ruling are unnecessarily restrictive. The board is right to tread slowly in considering cases raising important medical questions of an individual's competence, possibly malpractice, or even drinking habits. But in cases involving doctors who have already been convicted of crimes, the board's scrutiny should be much shorter and quicker. Had the board been empowered to review in speedy fashion a doctor's case immediately after his conviction, Arif Hussain could never...
...risk"--that students might feel denied a privilege and act on it. That gamble seems slight compared to the risk Harvard runs--and has not entirely avoided--by maintaining a preferential, stereotype-reinforcing lottery; it is one that Harvard's Ivy rivals have taken successfully. Harvard is right to tread slowly when it may be encroaching on student privileges. But it also has a responsibility to act when larger rights and values--like that of a truly integrated University community, in which the individual's opportunity for inter group mingling is great--are at stake. Circumscribing those chances...
...early days, Haig and other officials confined themselves to restrained expressions of "concern" and cautiously voiced hopes that the martial law crackdown would only be "a temporary retrogression, not a change in the overall historic trend toward reform" in Poland. As one top diplomat explained: "We want to tread the fine line between taking positions that would incite violence and bloodshed and perhaps [Soviet] intervention on the one hand, and avoid positions which would acquiesce in the repression of Polish reform on the other...
While for some of us he has sometimes tread too cautiously, he cannot be criticized for avoiding complex problems. To the contrary, he had made a sincere effort to express his opinions and put them down on paper where they can be dissected and debated...
Israel's continuing economic problems, the prospect of weak government and the possibility of another round of elections within a year reflect a troubled and divided nation. Facing this future, Israel is potentially more dependent upon the U.S. than before. But the Administration would have to tread carefully in any attempts to influence Israel's leaders, whoever they turn out to be, since a weak Israeli government will be more anxious than ever to demonstrate its independence. -By Marguerite Johnson. Reported by David Aikman and Robert Rosenberg/Jerusalem