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...dubious defense strategy was foreshadowed by his wife Linda in an ill-conceived appearance last week on NBC's Today show. She claimed that her husband was hoodwinked by nefarious underlings and that the proof of his innocence is that he and his family are now near bankruptcy. "If those people had come back to him and told him there was anything wrong, he would have stopped it and fixed it," Linda Lay declared. "There's nothing left. Everything we had mostly was in Enron stock...
Last November, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft declared that he would hunt down doctors who help terminally ill patients commit suicide. The move was prompted by a law in Oregon that legalizes doctor-assisted suicide. He said that doctors who prescribe drugs to help patients die face suspension or revocation of their privileges to prescribe federally controlled drugs...
...does legalize physician-assisted suicide, it does so only under tightly restricted circumstances. For example, it does not allow doctors themselves to administer lethal medication in the same way practiced by the infamous Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Instead, a physician can prescribe a lethal dose of medication to a terminally ill patient who then decides if and when to use it. Self-administration helps ensure that the patient is acting voluntarily. Other restrictions demand that the patient’s request for lethal medication be in writing and signed before two witnesses. Two physicians have to confirm that the patient suffers...
...hope that Sen. Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) can extract important concessions on these points during budget deliberations. Recent Republican attempts to paint him as “obstructionist” are true only insofar as he has tried to obstruct ill-conceived tax rebates for the rich while fighting for America’s less fortunate...
...they have boatloads of talent but are woefully inconsistent. Onyekwe and Koko Archibong may be the two best forwards in this league, and junior transfer Andrew Toole has been as good as advertised, but unless Penn gets serious, its loss Saturday will not be its last. And Penn can ill afford any more upsets...