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...only a few months to live. A writer and translator living in Manhattan, she was suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia, an especially deadly form of blood cancer. The only treatment available was interferon, an immune-system booster that wasn't really working and that made her violently ill. Reiter had spent most of 1999 in bed, too sick to read, to walk, to do much of anything?although she had managed to put together lists dividing her possessions between her two daughters...
...John Paul Stevens, chided the conservative majority for "overbroad language...given the importance of showing respect for sovereign states." Stevens also suggested that while medical necessity can't be invoked by a mass distributor, it might still be a defense against prosecution of an individual--"a seriously ill patient for whom there is no other means of avoiding starvation or extraordinary suffering...
...only a few months to live. A writer and translator living in Manhattan, she was suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia, an especially deadly form of blood cancer. The only treatment available was interferon, an immune-system booster that wasn't really working and that made her violently ill. Reiter had spent most of 1999 in bed, too sick to read, to walk, to do much of anything--although she had managed to put together lists dividing her possessions between her two daughters...
...fire--attributed to Mrs. O'Leary's ill-fated cow knocking over a lantern on an October night--leveled most of the city, with the notable exception of a water tower. History in such a context (certainly not for all residents of Chicago, a city whose South Side is home to an extraordinary number of eminent historians and classicists; but for myself on the North Side, surrounded by construction, at a tender age) is the distance covered since the last beginning. It has no real sense of accumulation...
...write in response to Parker R. Conrad's ill-advised column "Fit to Print?" (Opinion, May 18). The op-ed page is no place for the managing editor to defend The Crimson against criticisms and allegations of poor ethics. For Conrad to write a column about the journalistic process is a direct conflict of interest. Conrad's editorial blurs the line between news and opinion at The Crimson and is particularly ironic given that the focus of his piece is The Crimson's ethics...