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...stubborn wisp of a man lumbered through the two-day proceedings, berated by the judge and derided by the prosecution for courtroom gaffes and blunders. Kevorkian discovered, for example, that he couldn't call the witnesses he wanted. The judge declared that the family of Thomas Youk, to whom Kevorkian had given a lethal injection, would raise the consent of the patient as a defense--one that was irrelevant in a murder case. Four times in the past, Kevorkian's lawyer Geoffrey Fieger (whom Kevorkian did not want representing him in this case) had beaten assisted-suicide charges by arguing...
...were struggling against a quickly escalating ground war. Serbian troops, who had been massing on Kosovo's borders for weeks, began to squeeze the province, forcing many units of the rebel K.L.A. to fight for their lives. "We are encircled," a K.L.A. commander told TIME in a hurried phone call during a break in the shooting. "All around us are Serb forces and at least 30,000 troops and more than 200 vehicles. We are not in a very good position...
...country most violently opposed, outside Yugoslavia, is Russia. Moscow has been arguing against using force for months, and Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov was in the air bound for Washington last week when the decision to bomb was made. As his plane headed across the Atlantic, Primakov got a call from Vice President Al Gore, who said the air strikes were now inevitable and proposed a joint statement postponing the meeting. Primakov curtly refused and headed home...
...university officials who need high-octane processors for such things as complex med-school accounting software, his people are fine with the hardware in place. And his job is to buy computers--typically 6,000 PCs a year. Right now, he says, "nothing is driving us to upgrade." Experts call it the "good enough" syndrome, as in "My computer's good enough--why do I need...
After watching the interview on 20/20 and reading your article, I believe that Monica is a very hurt, very confused woman who made a mistake--a mistake that many women have made before her. And though we shun such women and call them vixens, I believe this case is a perfect opportunity to look at how these women actually feel: alone and unloved. TIFFANI NYE Seminary, Miss...