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stuff we are in now that this was a good time to reflect
about how we saw ourselves as a commission.
My own sense of watching from the outside is
that we have -- we are being successful in the way
commissions work and that gives us a bigger chance to selfdefine
and write a ticket, an intellectual ticket which
most commissions do not get a chance to do because they are
having too much trouble fighting with each other. We ought
to take that -- and I think Alta is correct about that.
So let me pause for a moment and then go on to
what we -- what was really our goal as far as a committee
to see what program items we might come up with rather than
deciding we need a new garage or whatever.
We thought that as we discuss this in our
telephone conversations jointly and separately, though I
must say because of me we really did not have one large
conversation or one large conference. I could not make the
one we were supposed to have because my medical students
and my office staff were having Christmas parties and I was
not going to be very functional.
We thought that we ought to make a distinction
between larger and what we call big ticket items. For
example, the problem of the ownership of the human body,
which we will come back, and I put here smaller but I do