Word: vacuums
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...nuclear issues. It would have been as he describes it in his foreword, an analog to The Harvard Health Letter, a purely factual Medical School publication. But the debate over nuclear weapons is not like the debate over cholesterol: It cannot be decided empirically or discussed in a moral vacuum. So Derek Bok much more...
...Carter Administration is partly to blame for the current state of affairs, Cardenal believes. While Carter was instrumental in pressuring Somoza to step down, he did little to insure that moderates succeeded the dictator. A power-vacuum evolved, Cardenal claims, not unlike the one in 1917 Russia, and "the wrong people took the prize." What Cardenal cannot understand is Congress' reluctance to put pressure on the Sandinistas. "The United States did the right and noble thing getting rid of Somoza. Why all this hesitation about the Sandinistas? It is the same problem...
However, there are some essential and irreconcilable differences between "popular" and "serious" art forms. Rock music--which is today's "pop"--relies on its audience and the collective consciousness of a generation of youths for its power. Rock cannot--and should not--exist in a vacuum. It is by "the people" and should be for the people, although that might be wishful thinking in this age of corporate control. "Serious" art--for our purposes, classical music--emphasizes the artist, his ego, and a purely subjective and personal outlook. Success usually comes only after the classical composer dies and sometimes...
...Perle's near dominance of the arms-control process has another explanation as well. He has been able to fill the partial vacuum of experience, expertise and interest in arms control that exists at the highest levels of the Government, including the Oval Office. Not since World War II has American national security policy been presided over by a group with so little grounding and standing in the field. National Security Adviser William Clark is a transplanted...
...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...