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...name of Chris Jericho would they get rid of the fair catch rule? The rule is in place to prevent people from becoming paralyzed, for crying out loud...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved by the Bell: X-Treme Caution | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

...Last week the newspaper the Orlando Sentinel got rid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Sep. 18, 2000 | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...home.) Gans, the retired psychologist who lives alone in a Manhattan high-rise, is worried that she will need medical care at night. More generally, African Americans, Russian immigrants and others who have had less access to health care fear that doctors who recommend hospice are trying to get rid of them. "All people want to die with dignity, but the definition is different," says Dr. Annette Dula, who wrote a book on ethics in African-American medical care. "In the black population, people want aggressive, continuing treatment even if it means food tubes, pain, antibiotics and losing their savings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Kinder, Gentler Death | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

Should I change banks? Should I start using money orders? Then I was inspired by a phrase--"faceless bureaucracy." I realized that I could get rid of 5221 through 5225 by using them to pay bills to institutions so large that even the presence of thoroughly revolting angels would go unnoticed. Check No. 5221 went to Con Edison for my electric bill. The angels wafted toward one of my many telephone companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not By Design | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...officer corps, and may have antagonized it by systematically retiring those generals he perceived as enemies and replacing them with his own men. It?s unlikely, now, that the military will be rallying around Montesinos - prompting Fujimori to go is more likely to be a means of getting rid of both a president whose lust for power had imperiled Peru?s relations with its neighbors and with Washington, and dispatch his reviled intelligence chief in the bargain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru's Fujimori Was Pushed — But Why? | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

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