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...page study, in fact, was largely devoted to a review of widely used public relations and advertising practices. Nonetheless, Winsten decided to drop the recommendation for video news releases from his report, not wishing to alienate the journalists on whose goodwill much of his program's success would depend...
CLUH members also charged that the Ad Board process intimidates students. Students depend on Senior Tutors to write recommendations for fellowships, scholarships, and graduate school. If a student is dissatisfied with the tutor's handling of a case, he or she may be unwilling to protest, for fear of upsetting the tutor...
...mercy killing gradually erodes, the courts and legislatures are struggling to be sure that the vulnerable are protected -- that, in the case of the severely disabled, the right to die not become a duty to die. They fear, for example, that medical care for newborn babies may come to depend on some cost-benefit analysis of their chance of living a "full healthy and active life." In the Baby Doe case in 1982, the Indiana courts allowed a couple to refuse surgery for their baby born with Down's syndrome and an incomplete esophagus; after six days, the baby starved...
...abortion issue, their stance against mercy killing is based on a theology that places the entire debate in a different context, that of a family of faith that tends most lovingly to its weakest members. The sanctity of a human existence, they argue, does not depend on its quality or its cost. What God gives only he can take away, and to usurp that right is an act of grave hubris. "Our Lord healed the sick, raised Lazarus from the dead, gave back sanity to the deranged," writes Muggeridge, "but never did He practice or envisage killing as part...
...until now the legal debate on the right to die has been wildly confused. If a car crashes on the George Washington Bridge and the driver is left comatose, his fate in court may depend on whether the ambulance takes him to New Jersey or New York. In New Jersey his family would probably be able to tell a hospital committee to stop life support. New York State's law is stricter, and without a living will the family would have to prove in court that the driver had left "clear and convincing evidence" that he would not want...