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...enormous therapeutic potential. Says James Bakalar of the Harvard Medical School: "I think the DEA's decision is precipitate. It's difficult to make a case that this is a serious threat to the nation's health or safety. They should wait until the research is in." MDMA boosters cite case histories to argue that Ecstasy can act as a catalyst in therapy by neutralizing emotional defenses. MDMA has been used to treat patients ranging from a painter with "artist's block" to abused children. "In the proper treatment setting, it can lower a person's fear of emotional injury...
...Degrees willing to talk hasten to point out, the University solicits nominations for degrees from all members of the Harvard community. Yet Dershowitz and others maintain the resulting list is largely irrelevant when the committee sits down to pick about 10 recipients from all walks of life. Those critics cite past unpopular recipients as evidence of the arbitrary nature of the system--a favorite example is the Shah of Iran, who got a degree in 1968. The critics also charge that deserving minorities and Jews--like Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis--were denied degrees specifically because of their race...
...cockpit. Joseph Leroy, a 727 captain, says the two-tier system would bring "great dissension" because people would be getting different pay for exactly the same work. Says he: "The cockpit depends on mutual respect and trust. We cannot afford that kind of trouble." The pilots also cite a long list of wage and benefit concessions they have made over the past several years. Finally, the pilots point to the airline's 1984 operating earnings of $564 million. It was United's most profitable year ever...
...factually substantiate all our allegations," added Lawson, who refused to cite specific evidence supporting the charges...
...been an ongoing problem, although small, in a number of institutions," where students are feeling some peer pressure not to ask for makeup exams, Bachrach said. He did not cite specific examples...