Word: springly
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Harvard will send admissions letters to fewer applicants this spring in an attempt to insure that the Class of '84 is not as large as this year's record freshman class, admissions officials announced yesterday...
...Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) will invite Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.), a supporter of "the eventual divestiture" of South Africa related investments, to speak before the group later this spring...
...Because Spring is mobile and able to talk, his case is not the same as the celebrated one involving Karen Ann Quinlan, the young New Jersey woman whose hopeless comatose state led her parents to ask that efforts to keep her alive cease. (Though doctors disconnected her respirator almost four years ago, after a ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court, Quinlan, still in a coma, remains alive.) "This man is not a vegetable," insists Fred Mues, administrator of the Holyoke Geriatric Center, where Spring lives...
...first tough question the Massachusetts courts had to answer was who should decide what Spring would want were he competent to choose. The resulting yearlong legal wrangle ended a month ago when the supreme judicial court ruled that the decision was up to the probate court judge, not relatives or doctors...
With the case back in his hands, Franklin County Probate Court Judge Sanford Keedy concluded that the onetime avid outdoorsman would rather die than prolong a life devoted mostly to sleeping. The next day, Spring did not receive his regular dialysis treatment. His nurses were outraged. Two of them asked Spring if he wanted to die, and when he reportedly said no, they took the story to the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram. A Hartford, Conn., nurse and a Brookline, Mass., doctor, both affiliated with the right-to-life movement, then visited Spring and also emerged with a no to the same...