Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stephen G. Breyer, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, and former professor at Harvard Law School...
Occupation: Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit since...
Experience: Circuit Judge 1980-present...
Jack Kevorkian -- a.k.a. Dr. Death -- may be back in business. Kevorkian, 62, a retired Michigan pathologist, gained national notoriety last year when he used his home-built suicide machine to help Alzheimer's patient Janet Adkins kill herself. Last week, two days after Oakland County Circuit Judge Alice Gilbert issued a court injunction barring Kevorkian from using the suicide machine, he announced that he had counseled a dentist with cancer who was (and likely still is) contemplating using a similar machine of his own. Said Kevorkian: "I'm just testing the limits of the injunction...
...remaining candidates, sources said, may include Stephen G. Breyer, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, University of Chicago Provost Gerhard Casper, Leroy E. Hood, a leading biology at the California Institute of Technology, Houghton Professor of Chemistry Jeremy R. Knowles and Rotch Professor of Atmospheric Science Michael B. McElroy...