Word: complexity
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...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...
When he is done with the $250 million project in 1992, Singh intends the Truman Annex to be an environmentally sound, architecturally pure, socially engineered complex of 700 homes, condominiums, shops and hotel rooms. His design guidelines, reflecting the conch-house architecture of historical Key West, run to 27 dogmatic pages: "White is the preferred and approved basic color for all structures." "Each single-family unit shall have a bougainvillea within the front-yard area . . ." What he is building is an enclave away from the trashed-out, mixed-up modern world, and he gleefully plans to earn a pile...
Singh can be disarmingly frank about his failings: he has dealt with the problem of homelessness in Key West by putting up gates to close off his streets at night. His complex includes more affordable housing than required, but up to half may go to friends and vacationers, rather than to year-round residents...
...Undergraduate Council and the house masters have recently given up on the housing issue. I expect that Dean Jewett will also find the issue too complex to deal with and will turn it over to President Bok. The only higher authority than Bok at Harvard is God, but God has a tendency towards order. God will probably leave the task to entropy, the only natural process of randomization in the world...
...occupation began not two years ago, but 22. Resolving the occupation necessarily involves addressing the question of Palestinian refugees who either fled Israel or were banished by the Jews 40 years ago. To call for unilateral Israeli withdrawal is simplistic. Negotiations will be complex; they must result in self-determination for Palestinians and security for Israel. The specifics of a peace treaty will make the content of many a Crimson editorial in the future. At present, the task is more basic: to pressure Israel to enter into negotiations with the P.L.O., prepared to cede land for peace...