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BACK IN 1731 Jonathan Swift wrote a poem about two starstuck undergraduate lovers. The poem explored how stripping down the trappings of civility shatters all convenient illusions, including college romance. Swift's young man gets shaken to the core by a shocking realization...
Against such swift developments in the growing euthanasia campaign, there is also the beginning of a countermovement. In fact, one of the men who first spoke out against excessive medical care for the dying, Princeton Ethicist Paul Ramsey, is now worried because so many people have taken up the cause...
Picking 18th, 25th, and 30th in the first three rounds, the Bruins also announced the drafting of right winger Donald Larway and left winger Pete Sturgeon. Larway tallied 46 goals and 36 assists for the Swift Current Broncos, while Sturgeon had 39 scores and 48 assists for the Kitchener Rangers...
...late Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn, used to marvel at "those rolling waves of sentiment" that would occasionally engulf the House, abruptly establishing a solid consensus. Last week even Mister Sam might have been surprised at the swift surge of revulsion that swept both chambers of Congress. It came suddenly on Wednesday, eight days after the release of the presidential transcripts. The turn seemed to come with the gathering flow of mail running as much as 10-1 against the President, the opportunity for enough of the busy Congressmen finally to read through much of the transcripts...
Administration is Sawhill's forte. A native of Baltimore, he earned a Ph.D. in economics, finance and management from New York University, where he later taught and served as an assistant dean. In business, he had a swift rise; in less than nine years at Commercial Credit Co.-broken by a year and a half at McKinsey & Co., a management consulting firm-he worked up to a senior vice-presidency worth nearly $100,000 a year and was expected to become president. But he wanted to get into public service, and when he was recruited by the Office...