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...record of pragmatism in dealing with thorny social issues like drugs and abortion. Euthanasia is still, under Dutch law, a crime punishable by up to 12 years in prison. But in fact, the Netherlands has tolerated the practice for more than a decade, and the number of cases has risen dramatically over the past five years. Have the Dutch found a sensible and humane way of dealing with the unbearable pain and suffering that often comes at the end of life? Or is this a policy run amuck...
...tobacco stocks have been smoking lately, you'd think the Surgeon General had just discovered that it's the paper, not what's wrapped inside, that makes cigarettes deadly. In just five months, shares of the nation's biggest tobacco company, Philip Morris (Marlboro), have risen 47% while shares of No. 2, RJR Nabisco (Winston, Camel), have jumped 39%. Sure, the industry just won a slew of important court cases. But that's hardly news. Big Tobacco has been snuffing out liability claims in the courts for decades. What's new is a persistent buzz that some kind of deal...
...members remained stable. Graduate students and adjunct faculty increasingly shouldered the load, while professional counselors and administrators and their retinues of support staff took over tasks once within a professor's job description. In 1970 the number of full-time university employees was 12,155; by 1993 it had risen to 15,706. Yet the number of undergrads, with the exception of my class and a few others, changed little...
...pundits have decreed that the American people no longer care about the "character issue" in electing public officials. In the time since Clinton has taken office, his supporters have had multiple occasions to thank God that such an evolution of the electorate has taken place. They have thus risen to defend this evolution of attitude and have striven to reassure the people of their new-found wisdom. "I don't care how many women he's slept with, as long as I agree with his policies." So goes the now established conventional wisdom...
Kelly Black has come a long way. She has risen from the depths of an injury-plagued early career to become the co-captain of the Harvard women's basketball team and one of the premier post players in the Ivy League...