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Other fellows are Michael Delli Carpini, associate professor of political science at Barnard College, who will study the influence of presidential debates on voters and journalists; Barrie Dunsmore, diplomatic correspondent for ABC News, who will examine the policy implications and strategic effects of covering war "live" from the battlefield; Don Kellermann, founding director of the Times Mirror Center, who will study the impact of media and public opinion on policy formation; and Jacqueline Sharkey, professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, who will analyze the impact of international trade and investment policies on First Amendment traditions and practices...
...Warwick Peacock was on Christiaan Barnard's original heart-transplant team in South Africa, but he eventually found heart transplants too routine to present sufficient challenge. In 1986 he came to ucla Medical Center to pioneer new techniques in brain surgery. Last May he faced an unusual challenge: a six-year-old girl suffering epileptic seizures so severe and unremitting that they could be relieved only by removal of part of her brain. First her brain was mapped by a positron-emission tomography scanner, a machine invented at ucla; then those readings were matched against others provided by a more...
...Gina Grant is probably better off not attending Harvard. I read of her plight and I sympathized . I wondered how I might help her, but the little bit of academic pull I have is at Barnard, and--be she fair, four or indifferent--I wouldn't wish that on her. Barnard exemplifies the have your-cake-and-eat-it-too admissions paradox in the worst way. Whole forests of trees are slaughtered yearly to disseminate its admissions propaganda about attending to the particular needs of women, blah blah blah...
When I was at Barnard, we had a protest of our own when the Columbia Spectator reported that Barnard student, unable to contact her off campus psychiatrist, confided to a health services therapist that she was suicidal. She was promptly suspended and asked to leave her dorm. Now, I don't think her "special needs" were attended to well at all, do you? The debate became quite heated. The offcampus psychiatrist told Barnard that suspending his patient would make her situation much, much worse and asked them to take her back. The college maintained its position believing, I think that...
...ultimately a matter of messy versus clean problems. At Barnard, sexual discrimination was a clean problem, suicidal depression was not. In Gina Grant's case cancer and car accidents were clean tragedy, child abuse and murder decidedly not. Colleges favor clean cut, easy-answer problems. Sexism bad, car accident sad. Sticky ambiguities, it would seem, are just a lot more of a hassle than they're worth. Gina Gionfriddo New York...