Word: centeredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In 1976, California passed a Living Will law, allowing individuals to express their own preferences for end-of-life care, including freedom from aggressive medical therapies. In 1980, Derek Humphry founded the Hemlock Society, the largest international public advocacy group lobbying for a competent, terminally ill individual's right to...
Reno had already launched a 30-day review to determine whether to ask for an independent counsel to investigate Gore. All by themselves, these developments would have moved the desultory Democratic fund-raising scandal out of the summer doldrums. But Reno has started moving on to the biggest target of...
A guilty sense of the injustice of fame assaults the famed one as well: "Why am I famous? Why do all these people seem to love me? I don't deserve it. I am a fraud." The anguished, neurotic internal monologue gets dramatized in self-destructive ways (drug overdoses, alcohol...
Instead of following survey form, the class will borrow some of the theoretical perspectives of cultural studies and examine, according to the catalog description, "how black music has evolved not merely as an extension of African-centered practices, but as a socially grounded idea that has profoundly contributed to modern...
In the '80s Soros began to build his philanthropic empire. One of his first ventures was in his native Hungary, where he supplied the country with photocopiers, an inspired application of technology to fight censorship. As the democracy movement gained momentum throughout Europe, Soros swept in to fund it, at...