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Yesterday, the Radcliffe lightweights went to Camden N.J., to face stiff competition and choppy waters on the Cooper River...
Jack Kevorkian had been warned that acting as his own attorney might have dire consequences. "You realize that being convicted of first-degree, premeditated murder means you could spend the rest of your life in prison?" Judge Jessica Cooper asked sternly at the beginning of his trial in Pontiac, Mich...
...Four times in the past, Kevorkian's lawyer Geoffrey Fieger (whom Kevorkian did not want representing him in this case) had beaten assisted-suicide charges by arguing that the ex-pathologist had only been relieving the suffering of the patients, who administered their own suicides. This time was different, Cooper said: Kevorkian had done the deed himself, and the crime was murder. Last September, Youk, who was suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, received the deadly mixture of drugs from Kevorkian as the procedure was recorded on videotape. It was later broadcast on CBS's 60 Minutes...
...focus of the Kevorkian case will now shift to the sentencing phase and place the spotlight on Judge Jessica Cooper. "She's been meticulously responsible in following the law and explicitly careful to explain everything to Kevorkian, since he chose to represent himself," says Grace. Now, however, it is Cooper who will make the final decision of this difficult case. How harsh should she be on the 70-year-old zealot? Says Grace: "The fact that she let Kevorkian go free pending the sentencing may be an indication that she thinks he's something less than a cold-blooded murderer...
Without that almost clairvoyant amendment by Cooper, we would be left with a very different impression of the modernist Ellsworth Kelly. By his own unabashed admission, Kelly is "minimalist," a title which suggests that his work could be seen as being overly impersonal. But this "immense detachment," as Cooper calls it, is impersonal in the sense of modesty, not purposeful indifference...