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...crackdown on Final Exit Network, a group based in Marietta, Ga., that is accused of assisted suicide, has revived the right-to-die debate that was fueled in the 1990s by Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan doctor who assisted in the deaths of 130 terminally ill people. But Final Exit claims that its volunteers do not perform assisted suicides à la Kevorkian, who was convicted of second-degree murder and went to prison for giving a lethal injection to a man suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease. Rather, the group argues that it merely provides a "compassionate presence" for terminally...
...long-time president of the country was shot dead in his home just hours after an armed attack on the military headquarters killed his Army chief of staff. The two men were adversaries in a bitter power struggle, one that had fueled a civil war in the late 1990s...
...During the savings and loan crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s, 747 banks and S&Ls failed. Taxpayers pay to protect bank customers' money, as is true with any bank failure involving FDIC-insured deposits. A taxpayer with $100,000 of insured cash in his local bank might get lucky. If the firm goes under and his deposits are saved by the FDIC, his years of paying taxes will come back to him with a profit...
...begun to experience a revival, the school still faced major unresolved issues when she assumed the deanship in 2003.The peace and institutional reform during Kagan’s tenure as dean of the Law School have marked a significant shift from the ideological battles in the 1980s and early 1990s, when a warring faculty became symbolic of the school’s larger problems.Kagan embarked on a wide-ranging reform campaign to address many of the issues she had experienced firsthand as a student at the Law School, hoping to improve the student experience that many describe as cold...
...three deaths are just a sample of what has been one of Moscow's most violent periods, reminiscent of the notorious 1990s. Just three weeks before Shepiyev's death, human-rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were murdered in central Moscow. In December, a worker from Tajikistan was beheaded in the capital region. Moscow's chief prosecutor, Yuri Syomin, announced on Feb. 16 that murders had gone up 16% and fatal attacks 44% in recent months...