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...live. She lasted for two. That was all the time it took, Mirin said, to "come 180 degrees in my attitude. I can still intellectualize why people seek out a person like Kevorkian. But I've come to understand that the lives of even the terminally ill are precious and matter, right up to the last second of breath. There is such a thing as dying with grace, dignity, compassion and support, and there are alternatives to the kind of suicide Kevorkian proposes...
...1800s, Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter), a mute Scottish woman, lands on the isolated New Zealand shore with her chatty young daughter (Anna Paquin) and her precious piano; the crated instrument perches on the bleak beach like an exotic bird, or like a coffin holding the happy life Ada left behind. Her mail-order husband (Sam Neill) trades the piano for land with the "town freak," George Baines (Harvey Keitel), and in another plaintive transaction Baines agrees to sell the piano back to Ada, one key at a time, for increasingly audacious amorous favors. This uncorseted Brontean plot runs the gauntlet...
What does George Soros know that the rest of the world doesn't? When news leaked out that he had purchased a $400 million stake in the largest U.S. gold-mining company, investors piled into the market, pushing the price of the precious metal to a 17-month high two weeks ago. Last week gold soared to a two-year high. Was Soros betting on a new era of inflation caused by governments' printing their way out of debt? Was he hedging against some looming financial Armageddon...
...days after Harvard detectives found a cache of precious gems in Hogue's apartment, Lt. John F. Rooney, Detective Richard Mederos, Detective Paul Westlund and Sergeant Kathleen Stanford were still working to get a complete picture of the man they had arrested...
...action will serve to benefit race relations for any students at the College. Although it may shed light on the relationship between Epps and Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations S. Allen Counter by questioning why Counter failed to approach Epps himself with the concerns of the AAA, precious little seems to have been gained...