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Keizer says he grants only one of the five or so "serious" euthanasia requests he gets a year. "The process is so stressful that most physicians do whatever they can to avoid getting involved in euthanasia cases," he says. "It's still as emotional and difficult as ever, but the current climate makes it easier to discuss with the patient...
...national park, they can't get over those close encounters with wild elk, moose, trumpeter swans, coyotes and, closest of all, buffalo. The huge, hairy beasts--some weighing as much as a Volkswagen--ambled right down the middle of the road, often forcing drivers to hit their brakes to avoid a meaty collision. "We got within 5 ft. of them!" says an excited John Purcell. "I've never seen so many bison...
Penn was in a bind. It was running at a deficit, but to avoid losing its place in the Ivies, it had to spend heavily to recruit and keep the best faculty and meet the growing demand by students for more course choices, more diversity, more access to professors and--one of the most salient trends of the post-'60s student body--more amenities, including comfy dorms, indoor tennis courts and pools. Meyerson had been acting chancellor at Berkeley during the height of student unrest. At Penn, he says, "the worst sit-in I experienced was when we tried...
Psychopathia Sexualis, the latest off-Broadway effort from John Patrick Shanley (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Four Dogs and a Bone), is, unfortunately, a model of what playwrights should avoid. It's a slim but labored farce about a young man (Andrew McCarthy) who can't make love without having his father's socks around and the psychiatrist (Edward Herrmann) who has taken them away. The stale shrink jokes wouldn't pass muster on an average episode of Seinfeld, not to mention Shanley's own better work, like his flavorful screenplay for Moonstruck. What Hollywood gave Shanley was discipline...
...South Africa the same crime), but it seems as if the Swiss think they should be excluded from international condemnation simply because they bought their way out of World War II. We should all recognize our crimes against the Jews and focus on teaching our children how to avoid spreading the ignorance that was rampant in the early days of the century. APRIL D. REAGAN Apex, North Carolina...