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...NICOLE KIDMAN: TO DIE...
There is some merit to both perspectives. Obviously, the military should not be a testing ground for theories of social justice. When it comes to war and peace, we do not have the luxury of running controls or tweaking variables ad infinitum; if the experiment fails, men and women die. In this regard, the callous disregard for national security evinced by those who spout entitlement talk is contemptible. At the same time, the exclusive emphasis of many conservatives on unit cohesion and effectiveness is more than slightly disquieting. Developed to its logical extreme, it can lead to--indeed...
...death penalty, still finds it difficult to execute females. Second, she was a great-grandmother, and most headlines referring to the case use that identification, as in "Great-Grandmother's Time Is Running Out," or "Will Texas Kill Great-Grandmother?" Images of a seemingly nice old lady doomed to die always play well with the media. The other reason Beets is attracting so much attention is that her case presents a perfect opportunity for Governor Bush's opposition to publicly question his "compassionate conservatism." Bush was unmoved by pleas for Beets's life; when asked Thursday whether...
...Every day is do or die," he said while voting his home state of Arizona. "We're a high-wire act and an insurgency campaign...
Once and future hospital patients everywhere cringed in December when the National Academy of Sciences released a hot-button study suggesting that roughly 90,000 patients die each year as a result of preventable medical mistakes. Tuesday, President Clinton announced a proposal to make public the errors committed by hospitals. This plan, according to TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson, has teeth. "These changes could become part of a patients' bill of rights," says Thompson. Since the NAS report was released, he adds, Clinton vowed repeatedly to adopt the measures suggested by the academy; almost every NAS recommendation has made...