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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although these events provide a striking case study of legislative manipulation, the most pressing problem is neither the senate president nor the campaign system in Massachusetts. Rather, the most disturbing aspect of the entire debacle is the willingness of politicians to subordinate the will of the people and the common good to their own personal ambitions and preferences...

Author: By David M. Debartolo, | Title: Deciding in the Public Interest | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

...themselves that the end justifies the means, that they are so productive and beneficial to society that any action is justified if it keeps them in power. Other politicians may feel that each action is a trade-off, that as long as they make some decisions that benefit the common good they have the right to make some decisions to help themselves...

Author: By David M. Debartolo, | Title: Deciding in the Public Interest | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

...mark of the true and courageous public servant is unwavering devotion to the common good regardless of personal considerations. It is difficult, to be sure, and requires a great deal of resolve...

Author: By David M. Debartolo, | Title: Deciding in the Public Interest | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

Members of women's groups from across campus will gather tonight in the Lyman Common room to kick off the Radcliffe Union of Students' (RUS) First Annual Women's Initiative...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre and Lisa B. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Women's Groups to Kick Off First RUS Initiative | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

Finally, though University Health Services (UHS) says its patients do not usually require the kind of treatments in which errors are most common nationwide, officials say they've taken steps to ensure that medical mistakes are not a problem...

Author: By Marla B. Kaplan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Medical Mistakes Study Old News at Harvard | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

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