Word: commital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rudenstine's statement says that "some individual graduates of Harvard College...have voluntarily come forward, unsolicited, and offered to commit sufficient incremental funds to pay the administrative fee to MIT for a period of at least three to four years...
...characters in a novel commit suicide, make death threats or claim that the world will end tomorrow, their authors aren't punished. The storylines may be distasteful, but they aren't criminal. If all newsgroup users were held accountable for their words, millions of people all over the world would be arrested, convicted and shot by their governments...
However, the staff exaggerates the United States' interest in the conflict when it suggests that the U.S. should be ready to commit ground forces to the conflict. The Bosnian conflict is essentially a civil...
...such, the U.S. should immediately end the arms embargo against the Bosnian (and Croatian) forces--unilaterally if necessary--and step up NATO airstrikes to protect U.N.-designated safe havens. But the U.S. must not commit its own forces to this conflict. We should help the Bosnians in their civil war, but we cannot fight their war for them...
...attempts suggests that some of the biochemical changes are temporary and may peak in the weeks prior to the act. If that finding holds up, it could lead to a lab test that would identify those who are most immediately vulnerable. Studies show that half of all people who commit suicide visit their doctor in the month prior to their death. Most of the time the physician finds nothing medically wrong with them and sends them home. Doctors may someday be able to give these people a blood test that measures their body's ability to manufacture serotonin. Those whose...