Morning Updates: Are early breast cancer surgeries worth it?
Good morning, Boston. The benefits of early breast cancer surgeries are in doubt after an extensive medical study, a college counselor is arrested for allegedly using Harvard to coerce a student into sex, and the rest of the news you need to know today.
Cross-examination of prep school rape accuser ends in tears: “The back-and-forth got contentious, with [defense attorney J.W.] Carney at one point asking for the judge to instruct the girl to answer yes or no to his questions. The judge said the girl could explain herself. She broke down once, when Carney asked why she was saying she was ‘cloudy’ the day before she met up with Labrie. ‘I was raped and violated,’ she said. ‘Of course. I was traumatized.’’’ (Boston.com)
Extensive study doubts value of early breast cancer surgery: “As many as 60,000 American women each year are told they have a very early stage of breast cancer — Stage 0, as it is commonly known — a possible precursor to what could be a deadly tumor. And almost every one of the women has either a lumpectomy or a mastectomy, and often a double mastectomy, removing a healthy breast as well. Yet it now appears that treatment may make no difference in their outcomes.’’ (The New York Times)
The lure of Harvard: “A Pennsylvania high school guidance counselor was arrested on Wednesday after officials say she tried to coerce a male student into a sexual relationship by promising him admission to Harvard. … She forwarded an email purportedly from Harvard that said the student would ‘definitely be a likely letter candidate’ and that ‘he’d be on the top of our list,’ Philadelphia reports. ‘[Y]ou … owe me big time,’ Feeney wrote [to the student] from her official school email. ‘And no high fives.’’’ (Boston.com)
Local attack on homeless Hispanic man isn’t random: “The anti-immigrant sentiments at the heart of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign hit home for Boston early Wednesday, and the leading GOP candidate wasn’t nearly as contrite about it as he should have been,’’ The Boston Globe’s Adrian Walker writes. … “In post-arrest interviews with the police, one of the [arrested] men also whined that he and his brother were arrested because they are white, while immigrants are never arrested. In that, they echoed the twisted sense of victimization one hears from immigrant-bashers everywhere.’’ (The Boston Globe)
Sen. Claire McCaskill says former Sen. Scott Brown was all about his bod: “He will do anything to show his body. It was so surreal, all of the women in the Senate used to talk about how he would figure out some way, every time he had a conversation, to work in something about his body. Like, ‘I was on the treadmill in the gym this morning and I saw you on MSNBC,’ or ‘You know, I was running at lunch today and’ — and he did it to all of us! We all compared notes.’’ (Boston.com)
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