Word: commital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...petition was a follow-up to a letter written to Carnesale earlier this year in anticipation of his appointment to the deanship. The letter, dated November 15, asked Carnesale to commit resources to creating a faculty which is diverse in terms of race, sex and sexual orientation...
...homosexuals in a category below everyone else. (I don't.) If I say "I believe I should stop turning papers in late, because by doing so I fail to fulfill my duty to my professors," I must also say I believe it is possible for those who commit other immoral acts to cease...
Rest assured that the same people who would gladly see laws passed discouraging homosexuality with punishments perhaps as severe as death would be suspicious of a onetime sinner and would treat him with prejudice even should he swear never to commit his crime again. In light of these truths we can see Peninsula's charade of caritas for what it is: a potentially influential camouflage for enduring hatred...
Alan: It is possible that you're no longer competent enough to make that kind of decision. But my view regarding the right of a terminally ill person to commit suicide does not change my belief that publishing a book like this is reckless and negligent. The dangerous thing about the book is that it falls into the hands of teenagers and clinically depressed people...
...became obsessed with the book. It showed him the way. He wanted it to be a nonpainful way. The book was clearly the answer to his dilemma of how to commit suicide without feeling any pain. He said he would never shoot himself or do anything like that...