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...their 50s, both career workers, both with HMOs. But when she got cancer and he had heart trouble, the bills mounted so fast that they had to sell their home and move to Denver into their daughter's basement. That humiliation saved them just enough money that they could spend the rest of their life savings on treatment and medication...
...Abortion is also an important element in The Banishment. Alex (Konstantin Lavronenko) leaves the city to spend two months in a rural family home with his wife Vera (Maria Bonnevie), their two young children and, from time to time, Alex's small-time criminal brother Mark (Alexander Baluev). Not long into their stay, the brooding Vera shatters Alex with this declaration: "I'm pregnant, and it's not your child." This cues his eventual insistence on an abortion. Their marriage has been strained before, but now the seams split, and anything that can go wrong, does...
...scoundrels bring us Risk, to rearrange that nasty competitive instinct along arbitrary House lines. The opening bell had hardly sounded before the color-coded trash-talk began. Those same horrid specimens who might otherwise have greedily withheld a study guide or sabotaged a classmate’s project instead spend their hours hijacking his account and sending his beloved soldiers to their doom. The effect is less severe, but the motive just as inglorious...
...alliance with the family of Juan Luna, the man convicted of the crime, denouncing the death penalty as an inhumane punishment. Thursday evening they got their wish. The verdict took only two hours of deliberation, and it ensures that Luna, convicted last Thursday after a 14-day trial, will spend the remainder of his life in prison. James Degorski, the second man charged in the case, one of Illinois' longest-running murder mysteries and worst massacres, is expected to go on trial soon. Cook County State's Attorney Richard Devine, who argued part of the case and pleaded with jurors...
...flat-out not allowed to live. If you go to the second floor of Lamont, you can watch hardcore pornography on the televisions while drinking yourself to finals glory. Congress should pass a law that says this is awesome. Some people have papers due during finals period, and they spend all their time writing those papers—while drunk! Hey Poindexter, why don’t you crawl back in the womb where you won’t have to have any motherfucking fun? To be on the cutting edge of rage, don’t bother drinking before...