Word: commitement
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...what sets David Rabe's A Question of Mercy apart from the earnest TV movies that it resembles. Recently opened at the off-Broadway theater where Rent debuted, the play follows a conflicted doctor (Zach Grenier) as he tries to help a dying aids patient (Juan Carlos Hernandez) commit suicide. TV would have turned this into a moralistic issue drama about the right to die. Under Rabe's focused gaze, it becomes a cold-eyed look at what happens when that noble ideal runs up against fallible human beings. Rabe--who in the 1970s wrote big, impassioned plays about Vietnam...
...drug-rehabilitation program Synanon; in Visalia, California. Synanon, which combined spartan communal living and aggressive group therapy, was widely acclaimed in the 1960s but eventually disbanded in the wake of increasingly bizarre behavior by Dederich, who proclaimed his organization a religion and was convicted of conspiring to commit murder by placing a rattlesnake in an opponent's mailbox...
...able to get off relatively easy," Perez said. "He didn't have to commit to any difficult or hard-to-enact changes...
...civil trial, O.J. was unjustly tried, wrongfully found liable and penalized for a crime he did not commit. BEN LILLARD Panama City, Florida
...team came out flying against BC. The game was played at a face-paced tempo, with each team moving up and down the ice rapidly. This style, while exciting for the spectators, can result in havoc for the players. In such an open game, players are bound to commit penalties, and Harvard players are no exceptions...