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...what point should doctors stop treating terminally ill or permanently unconscious patients? Which forms of treatment or care can properly be denied to a patient? May the cost in money and resources be considered? Moreover, who has the right to make these decisions? "We are facing a moral vacuum," says Dr. Alexander Leaf of Harvard Medical School. "There are enormous disparities in views on whether you withhold certain therapies or do everything possible to keep a person 'alive...
...this confusion, Goldman insists, has created a power vacuum that performers have filled by default. He has worked with some of Hollywood's biggest names and has learned from hard knocks: "Never underestimate the insecurity of a star." They do not know exactly how they got where they are, but they are fairly sure they will not be there for long. Goldman offers some research to support their fears. Of the ten top-grossing headliners in 1976, as measured by theater receipts, only two (Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds) made the same list in 1981. The s author underscores...
...most vocal) feel strongly about keeping the lawyer responsible to only his client. Yet lawyers who argue so loudly about preserving the adversary system seem in some important way to be missing the point. They tend to conceive of the client-lawyer relationship as existing in a vacuum, removed from the rest of the world; they have all but put the concept of confidentiality on a pedestal...
...commitment. There is no support network of a department full of professors and teaching fellows with similar interests. Finally, if a course or faculty member integral to one's program is absent for some reason, no one is responsible for filling the gap. One has essentially entered a bureacratic vacuum...
...organizations on campus. I believe that any links RUS can forge with other special interest or political groups on campus will help to widen the forum of student activism here. It is extremely important for a group which represents the interest of women not to exist in a political vacuum...