Word: consenting
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...statement. Gestures are not to be dismissed as merely symbolic. We live by symbols and the symbolic value of this university's collective gestures is orders of magnitude greater than the value of individual gestures we might make. We can choose, Mr. President, collective silence that implies either collective consent or collective indifference. Or we can take a stand that publicizes our collective opposition to the institutional racism of apartheid. Stephen A. Marglin Professor of Economics
Chung's bill, which came up before the joint Health Care Committee last week, seeks to codify the mature minor rule. The Supreme Judicial Court defined a mature minor as one who is capable of giving informed consent (to an operation or medication...
Doctors are afraid to keep minors' medical records confidential because common law labels treatment without parental consent "assault and battery," she said...
...stands now, the bill provides that mature minors should be able to receive abortions without parental consent. Chung says that because the abortion issue is so controversial in Massachusetts, she would be willing to accept an amendment if it would help the bill pass...
Even though he signed a consent decree declining to submit the matter to the courts, Buckley characteristically could not let his differences with the SEC go by without a public riposte. He released copies of his correspondence with the SEC on the matter, plus a long question-and-answer sheet. Among other things, he contended that he could not fairly be blamed for the misleading 10-K reports because he had not bothered to read them, and had relied on the advice of others that they were accurate. Said Buckley: "I did not even know what...