Word: commiting
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...results are mixed for many other procedures. At least four studies conducted in different countries have found that women who get breast implants commit suicide at significantly higher rates than women in the general population, although one explanation for that may be that women already predisposed to suicide are more likely than other women to want bigger breasts...
...best opportunity for Obama to broker a compromise will probably be during negotiations between the House and the Senate to hammer out a single piece of legislation. But on Thursday, Gibbs declined to commit Obama to direct involvement in those negotiations. "I don't think I would close the door in any way that he'll get involved," Gibbs said instead...
...ready to commit suicide yet.' NELSON CHAMISA, a spokesman for Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party, on its refusal to enter into a power-sharing agreement with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe...
...friend and more down-to-earth counterpoint is Nathan Baker-Trinity, a 31-year-old Lutheran pastor and FTE fellow who shuttles a red Mercury Tracer between two yoked churches near the White Earth Indian Reservation. His answer to the pastor shortage is simply to commit to the countryside (he grew up in rural Iowa). "I was like, 'Why wouldn't you go to a rural area?'" he says. Baker-Trinity is an indefatigable local booster. "They're talking about making my whole town wireless!" he says enthusiastically. Equally smitten are his parishioners, like Howard Steinmetz. After decades working...
...closing statement at his impeachment trial was the only real hiccup in the state senate hearings that had gone very smoothly in his absence. "It's painful to hold your tongue," Blagojevich said of the accusations leveled at him in December. But he insisted that he did not commit a criminal act, adding, "I didn't resign then, and I'm not resigning now." He went on, "You haven't been able to show wrongdoing in this trial," said Blagojevich, who called the proceedings an "improper impeachment not based on evidence" and hinted that he could call witnesses who might...