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TIME.com: Why has President Vladimir Putin authorized the arrest of Russia's leading tycoon, Mikhail Khodorkovsky? Are his motivations political, or economic...
...response that drew applause, Lieberman cited the recent arrest of almost 800 immigrants and foreign nationals as an “un-American” abuse of the government’s power. The best thing about the PATRIOT Act, Lieberman, said, was that Congress had installed a sunset clause...
Could the infamously acrimonious case of Terri Schiavo have been avoided? Thirteen years ago, the Florida woman went into cardiac arrest and lapsed into what some doctors have described as a vegetative state. For the past six years her husband Michael has been battling her parents for the right to remove her feeding tube and allow her to die. Michael Schiavo says he knows this is what his wife would have wanted. Her parents object because they say she is still showing signs of awareness. On Oct. 15 an appeals court sided with him, and the feeding tube was removed...
...which--the McCarter Theatre's at Princeton, with Jimmy Smits playing the lector--is transferring to Broadway next month. Another of Cruz's plays, Lorca in a Green Dress, is being staged in Oregon. His Two Sisters and a Piano, about a pair of Cuban political prisoners under house arrest, will be produced next year in San Diego and London, and he's finishing up a play, Huracan, for Washington's Arena Stage about how a hurricane changes the lives of the inhabitants of an unnamed Caribbean island...
...have wanted to live in her vegetative state) physically abused her. He vehemently denies the charge. But one possible cause of her collapse could soon become an issue. In a 1992 medical-malpractice suit brought by Michael, bulimia was raised as a possibly significant factor in the cardiac arrest that caused her brain damage. (She was considered seriously underweight at the time.) Terri's alleged eating disorder could be used by both sides--and most probably will be. The Schindlers believe verbally abusive behavior by Michael led to the bulimia. Michael denies that, and his supporters insist the eating disorder...