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...proponents can argue that there would be safeguards for the practice--the law in the Northern Territories requires that a psychiatrist and three doctors examine the patient to establish that the patient is terminally ill, and that he or she is of sound mind. But the scenarios described above pertain to patients who are not only terminally ill, but have made a rational decision that they want to end their lives. However, their reasons remain unjustifiable to society in general. So then, who is to determine who really qualifies for the procedure? Are we going to restrict it to simply...

Author: By Ali Ahsan, | Title: Euthanasia Kills Sanctity of Life | 12/17/1996 | See Source »

Some of the questions that the committee will ask Knowles pertain to a promotional article sent out by the development office in the fall of 1989, Forbes said...

Author: By Jay S. Kimmelman, | Title: Union Committee Will Meet Officials | 2/2/1996 | See Source »

...isolation from the issue themselves. In our post-Cold War ambivalence, we fluctuate between the desire to decisively flex our muscles on our own superpower initiative, as we could during many of the Cold War years, and the sense that dis-involvement in anything that does not directly pertain to us is best. Hence, we call for air strikes on Bosnia, but refuse to send our own troops in there; hence, we act unilaterally to revoke the arms embargo while U.N. policies languish. We are stuck in a quagmire of wishful thinking and anti-communist nostalgia--a vicarious reliving...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: A Poor Prognosis for Foreign Policy | 8/8/1995 | See Source »

Another professor, Hancock Professor of Hebrew Eliphalet Pertain served as acting president for two years before an official successor was chosen...

Author: By Gaston DE Los reyes, | Title: Third Absence In Office's History | 11/29/1994 | See Source »

...have concerns about the restrictions. Not as they pertain to us. because they don't really pertain to us, but as they pertain to other institutions," says Gary G. Fryer Yale director of public affairs and special assistant to the president "The restrictions are onerous...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: MIT Settlement Won't Save Overlap | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

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