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...waking up on Thursday in Edmonds, Wash., when she heard the news. The radio announced that the Supreme Court had sustained a Washington State law forbidding the terminally ill from enlisting doctors' help in committing suicide. Jewell, 58, who has advanced ovarian cancer and an aversion to a bedridden, IV-tubed future, was bitterly dismayed. "I felt a heaviness in my heart," she says. "I've always been a law-abiding citizen, but I think this is a moral right...
...photo is at once sad and gruesome, but Janet Ramirez treasures it. Dressed in a white hospital gown, an IV hooked up to her arm, the mother clasps her newborn baby, Maria Guadalupe. Only if you look closely can you see that the baby's face is a death mask; a white cap discreetly covers the gaping hole in the back of her skull...
...call spirits from the vasty deep," boasts Glendower in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, to which Hotspur sensibly replies, "Why, so can I, or so can any man: But will they come when you do call for them?" Not always, certainly. But often enough to endow American art with the means of expressing something that lies deep under the traditional materialism of American life...
...chair of the U.C.'s Campus Softball Committee, junior Winston Everett-Tawny IV, said that it wasn't his fault...
...Labour Party has in its constitution is wholesale nationalization, when, in fact, the party no longer believes in it." He traveled the country selling his view and was again vigorously opposed by the unions. "We didn't like the idea that Blair was hijacking the party by changing Clause IV," says John Cogger, president of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers. "It's our party, created by my union in 1899." It took two tries, but Blair finally won. Instantly, the man some thought of as smarmy and whom the press had nicknamed "Bambi" instead became known...