Word: commits
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...Simpson was at home waiting for a limousine that would take him to the airport for his 11:45 p.m. flight to Chicago. Nicole Simpson's father says the conversation took place closer to 10 p.m. If this is true, the prosecution could argue that Simpson had time to commit the killings shortly afterward, and still return home in plenty of time for his ride to the airport...
...Losing the affiliates to Fox was only part of it. The Eye web had fumbled its rights to N.F.L. games, a CBS staple since 1956, and allowed Fox to pick them up. CBS also looked inept when, unlike abc, nbc and Fox, it did not demand that cable systems commit to accept some jerry-built CBS cable channel in return for retransmission rights to the network's programming. "CBS could have gotten a cable channel for almost nothing," says the TV-industry executive. "They would just have to have invested some start-up money. But to Tisch it didn...
...Netherlands boasts one of the worlds most liberal policies on mercy killing, but the Bosscher case caused a sensation. Never before had a physician reported helping a depressed but otherwise healthy patient commit suicide. Of the estimated 2,300 cases of euthanasia and 400 cases of assisted suicide in Holland each year, virtually all involve patients suffering from a terminal illness or unbearable physical pain. Officials charged Chabot with violating the strict guidelines that permit doctors to help patients end their lives. Last week, in a landmark decision, the country's highest court ruled that though Chabot neglected to have...
Although calls for help from battered wives sharply increased last week, domestic violence remains not really a crime -- especially among the men who commit it or sympathize with those who do. The word domestic modifies and diminishes the word that follows so much that it is not considered true violence. Beating up a stranger gets you jailed; beating up a wife lands you in therapy...
Despite its harried plot what does make "Wolf" mildly entertaining is what Will's transformation does for him. Before he had been an average guy with a wife who plowed away at his job without any real gumption or nerve. His transformation makes him commit violent, gory acts of killing which he doesn't remember, but in his conscious life he channels his energy to make himself young again...