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Instituting the measures could be a boon for society, however, potentially reducing the overall price of errors - e.g., subsequent hospital visits, extra posttreatment care and lost wages - to almost negligible levels, but only if the new policies can decrease the rate of preventable errors at least 11.3%, according to the study. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
Since one thing I’ve learned at Harvard is that etymology will improve almost any argument (or at least extend its length), let me begin with a brief history of the word. “Value” started from the Latin valere, passing through Old French before landing with a messy splash in English. An odd cluster of meanings branched from its two short syllables: it meant to be healthy, to be able, or to be worthy; when used to describe words, it also meant to be meaningful or to be significant. Somewhere along...
...Soldiers and lawyers live at opposite intellectual extremes. Lawyers - at least those who deal with constitutional questions - live in an abstract world of seemingly precise codicils, which often turn out to be maddeningly inadequate when confronted by the violent imprecision of war. Soldiers in combat live in the existential horror of right now; their decisions save or cost lives. The best of them understand the need for rules, but don't have the luxury of abstraction. And so, Guantánamo: the lawyers defend the rights of the detainees, the soldiers fear the consequences of granting undue rights to villainous...
...failed Steven Green. And that would not amount to a hill of beans if the United States weren't trying to put him to death now." He ended his remarks by thundering, "America does not kill its broken warriors! Spare this boy. For God's sake, spare him." At least one juror heeded that exhortation...
...constraints of this place with kids ... I think it lessens it, because there are things that I have to do. There's a soccer game on - there's soccer on Saturdays. And we went in Chicago. We go to all their games - or I do, at least. So that makes you get out and be normal. There's parent-teacher conference, there's the play, there's the concert, there's the birthday party. You want to meet the person who's going to ... your kid is going to sleep over with. They want friends over, so you're arranging...