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...thing is for sure, though: the clarified rules will deal only with people who travel overseas to assist with suicide and won't change the fact that helping someone die in Britain is illegal. And that, says Dominic Wilkinson, a medical-research fellow at Oxford University, raises other ethical considerations. "If we think it's O.K. for people to go overseas to end their lives, and it's not illegal for them to do it or for people to help them do it," he asks, "why do we think that people who want to do the same thing in this...
News of the steep reduction came Monday, as final budgeting announcements were made across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Wilkinson said. FAS is currently planning a major internal restructuring to help it cope with what is projected to be a $220 million deficit over the next two years. The University announced on Tuesday that it would be eliminating 275 staff positions over the next few days to help reduce compensation costs...
...Wilkinson said that those conferences would take place as scheduled, but that "people will just have to work harder" in light of the reduced staffing. For this upcoming year, organizers expect the conferences to host 475 to 500 TFs and 30 junior faculty members, he said, as well as the newly appointed Harvard College Fellows...
...Wilkinson said that the Center would maintain all 20 of its departmental TFs, who are paid to advise their fellow TFs, thereby increasing the impact of the Center's efforts. He also said that the Bok Center may allocate more of its limited resources to enhancing new General Education courses...
...think our core efforts will continue," Wilkinson said. The Bok Center was founded in 1975 to improve the quality of undergraduate education at Harvard and was renamed in 1991 to honor former University President Derek...