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Kevorkian's new stealth strategy may simply be a means of self-preservation. Indeed, his chances of avoiding prison improved enormously at the end of the week, when Judge Cynthia Stephens, citing a technicality, struck down the Michigan law that threatened to curtail Kevorkian's efforts. Stephens also found that two terminally ill plaintiffs in the A.C.L.U. case had a right to die. She wrote, "This court cannot envisage a more fundamental right than the right to self-determination...
WASHINGTON -- From Barbra Streisand to Richard Dreyfuss, dozens of Hollywood types are treating Washington like Malibu East. Now Designing Women producer and Clinton adviser Harry Thomason, who has ensconced himself in a White House office, is trying to curtail the trend. "We don't want to discourage the enthusiasm," said Thomason last week, "but yes, there may be too many of them around." Maybe so, but Hillary Rodham Clinton was so impressed by a recent Liza Minnelli performance that she invited the singer to stop by for a visit next month...
...growth rate is a phenomenal 6%, and the $10 billion in loan guarantees finally granted by George Bush last year has permitted Israel to borrow from private banks at favorable rates. The country is doing so well that the government has asked the Israel Bonds Organization to curtail sales; the loan guarantees are a much better way to raise capital...
...considering a rule that would force companies to deduct the value of stock options from their earnings. That too would have an immediate and dire effect: it would reduce profits up to 48% for the average small firm and 3% for the typical big corporation. It would also drastically curtail the use of stock options by companies...
...York City group representing 200 CEOs. In a letter to FASB, Citicorp CEO John Reed, who heads the Business Roundtable's accounting task force, said the plan would have "negative effects" on U.S. competitiveness. Small and midsize firms oppose the plan because it would force them to curtail or severely limit their only affordable means to attract top executive and technical talent...