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Parslow's ruling took the question of maternal rights one step beyond the celebrated Baby M. case in New Jersey in 1987. In that decision Mary Beth Whitehead was denied custody of the child she contracted to bear, but she was later granted visitation rights. Whitehead had been impregnated through artificial insemination by the husband of the couple who hired her and therefore was the infant's genetic mother...
...university is "taking ethics training seriously and trying to set an example" for other institutions, said Dennis F. Thompson, Whitehead professor of political philosophy and the director of Harvard's Program in Ethics and the Professions...
...case does not involve the overt messages of the songs, which state judge Jerry Carr Whitehead has ruled are protected by the First Amendment. At issue, instead, is the alleged use by the band and its corporate producer, CBS Records, of secretly encoded subliminal messages that are received only by the unconscious mind. Visual subliminal images -- for example, flashing the word buy at speeds too great to be observed by the conscious mind -- have been tested in video advertising for decades, although researchers debate whether they have any proven persuasive effect. The notion that auditory images of this type could...
...perplexed about the pathology of the illness. So far, although he is HIV-positive, he does not have any symptoms of AIDS. "But I don't understand it," he says. "So many others have already died. Forty of my friends, including my best friend, David Kalstone . . . my editor, Bill Whitehead. Students of mine have died. It doesn't seem right, students dying before their teacher -- like children before their parents, the worst tragedy...
...three overseers who will also sit on the Committee are John C. Whitehead, the president of the Board of Overseers who is also an executive of a New York investment firm; Hanna H. Gray, the former president of the University of Chicago; and Wesley S. Williams, a Washington lawyer...