Word: deeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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. "It's not necessarily murder," Kevorkian told correspondent Mike Wallace...
...overthrow his father, turned to his mother for help. Gaia, exhausted by repeated strenuous labor and angered by Uranus' tyranny, supplied her son a sickle with which to castrate his father, her husband. Mother Earth proceeded to devour Uranus's dismembered parts. The blood pouring from this violent deed fertilized the goddess, impregnating her with the Furies and the Giants. Gaia's story continues, recounting fertile "unions" with other deities, another son among them. A fruitful, polygamous man-eater, the original Gaia would have Dr. Lovelock's fruity, peaceful nurturer for breakfast...
More substantively, though, from Harvard's perspective, there's something to be said for doing a good deed to the tune of buying the building for the congregation or at least working out a deal helping the congregation purchase the chapel. As we saw recently with the announcement that Memorial Hall's tower will be rebuilt, the University has an appreciation of history and beauty as well as for pragmatism and the bottom line. Harvard knows well that the Chapel has historical significance to our academic life, as both Henry James and his son William (for whom the building which...
Additionally, the town-gown relationship, which cycles from bad to tolerable and back to bad, would be given a push in the right direction if Harvard were to do a purely generous deed and be seen to be doing so. As David A. Zewinski '76, associate director for physical resources and planning for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said, "Given how much this development has been a lightning rod for community activists, [buying the site] does a lot for Harvard as a white knight...
...make an exception for John William King, the feral white man who chained a black man, James Byrd Jr., to a pickup truck last year and dragged him along a rough country road that skinned him alive and dismembered him. To object to putting King to death for the deed requires a saintliness I do not possess. In one sense, King's case is almost a moral free ride. My conscience would remain untroubled by some other death sentences, but John William King's execution will seem especially just and fitting--and, though it is ghastly...