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...A.B.A. notes that in 1985 state courts imposed sanctions ranging from disbarment to probation on 2,396 errant practitioners, an increase of 44% since 1981. Doctors, wandering through ethical thickets freshly grown from a technology that gives them daunting new powers over life and death, are held in low esteem by many who see them as self-serving money chasers. Dr. Richard Kusserow, inspector general for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, claims that physicians' peer- review boards, out of concern for the profession's good name, tend to sweep ethics complaints under the rug. "They protect each...
...males and more likely to have a history of antisocial behavior. The rapists and their victims are usually in the 15-to-24 age group. The women are often alone in a new environment, like a college campus. Compared with other women, the victims generally suffer from lower self-esteem and are not very good at asserting themselves. One woman, raped by her date at a fraternity party, said she decided not to scream for help because she did not want to embarrass the rapist...
...quest for fulfillment usually begins with donations to a few selected charities pledging aid to assorted human and animal unfortunates. These donations provide a quick patch for bothersome guilt and ailing self-esteem, especially when the hordes of monogrammed recognition plaques start rolling in. Unfortunately, richies can line the mansion walls with only so many plaques before they are considered gauche. Then depression usually resumes...
...Neill, despite his national prominence, always lived by his adage, "all politics is local." He still has his hair cut at the same barbershop he patronized as a boy. Honoring O'Neill is the least Harvard could do to recognize its intimate relationship with the community and to display esteem for a Cambridge boy who has distinguished himself beyond need for additional honor...
Although I found the entire visit to the children ludicrous from the start, it was this last comment which made me realize the pathetic role we force on the disadvantaged in our society. We force them to sell their self-esteem to satisfy our desire for pathos. America runs on pathos. Christmas, elections--these children are required to unwittingly expose themselves to the world in order to get the help they deserve. Some of the parents spoke at the press conference, but at least then the press was forbidden to take their pictures. The children are not so lucky...