Word: commited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some students, work commitments take away from other activities. "I have to spend 15 hours a week of my 'free time' working; I cannot commit myself to extracurriculars which demand high time commitment," explains Charles Savage '98, who works 10 hours a week doing dorm crew and five as a research assistant...
Drug use "immediately causes individuals to commit crime, as they disregard our rationally imposed legal norms." What crimes do drug users immediately commit, except for the crime of using drugs? Perhaps Kaufman is referring to statistics that 70 percent of violent crimes are committed by people on drugs. This is a powerful statistic, but one should also note that in the majority of these violent, drug-induced crimes, alcohol was the only drug. And the four drugs the students are charged with are not known to contribute in any way to violent behavior (many would contend they suppress violent behavior...
Devastated residents struggled to explain how children so young could commit so horrifying an act. Their area of Richmond, an industrial city outside of Oakland, is poor and tough but not violence-ridden. "It's a predominantly quiet street," Ophelia Stringer told the Mercury News. "It's not all shooting and drugs. It bothers us that all people say we're in gangs and have dysfunctional families. It's not true. We're normal people." Agreed police sergeant Mike Walter: "This is not the sort of neighborhood where we've had this sort of thing before; there have been...
...BENJAMIN WILL NEVER FORGET the first time he helped a patient commit suicide. It was more than a quarter-century ago. An elderly couple came to his office, husband and wife, both terminally ill and in terrible agony with cancer. "They told me they would like a supply of pills on hand just in case," recalls the 71-year-old New York City internist. The law forbade him to agree; his conscience dictated otherwise. In the end, his conscience won, but Benjamin had to wrestle with this ethical dilemma alone. At the time, doctors didn't even whisper among themselves...
...undertaken lightly. Benjamin, whose car sports a bumper sticker reading GOOD LIFE, GOOD DEATH, gets one or two requests a month for help in dying but talks most of his patients out of it. Says he: "You don't want to give pills to someone you think decided to commit suicide on Tuesday and on Wednesday would have changed his mind...