Word: whether
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Murray the next day to inform her that we would be able to approve her request." Associate Dean Timothy Cross never brought up renovations during his call. "Harvard's reputation" appeared to be the sole reason for the rejection; "logistical concerns" were not even mentioned. When I inquired whether there was any other place in the University where the conference might be held, I received a monosyllabic response...
...dangers inherent in such complex transplants pose ethical dilemmas for the medical community. University of Chicago ethicists and physicians spent a year discussing whether doctors have the right to ask healthy parents to donate portions of their vital organs, even if it means saving the life of their child. Critics argue that there is no way parents can refuse such a request when under the pressure of having a dying child. For that reason, university officials required a two-week delay between the time Teresa and her husband John signed the consent forms and the date of the transplant...
...Barry Goldwater -- included Southern Agrarians and free-marketeers, isolationists and advocates of the rollback of Communism, students of T.S. Eliot and fans of Joseph McCarthy. In the '70s there was a mass immigration of mugged liberals -- the neoconservatives. Communism acted on all these grouplets as a powerful unifying force. Whether you wanted an American Century or a minimal state, you could not be comfortable with Soviet aggrandizement. Lenin was anathema whether your philosophical polestar was Thomas Aquinas or Ayn Rand. Like an offensive guest at a lousy party, Communism drew together a lot of people who would otherwise have been...
HARLEM NIGHTS. Making his directing debut, Eddie Murphy can't seem to decide whether to go for laughs or melodrama. His movie about the great Harlem nightclubs that flourished in the '30s generates a lot of foul-mouthed noise but only fitful, murky light...
...Press may be invited or excluded whether the meeting is open or closed...