Word: dies
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...death was not entirely unexpected. Cobain spoke so openly on the subjects of drugs and depression and suicide that writers searching for easy obituary ironies didn't have to look very hard. Cobain himself even began joking about it; a song called I Hate Myself and I Want to Die was recorded but dropped from the last album. "It was totally satirical, making fun of ourselves," Cobain told a reporter earlier this year. "I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time. I thought it was a funny title...
...came to the defense of life's greatest losers when he pronounced that "I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death." In a society where those who cannot buy high-priced lawyers are disproportionately executed, he wrote that "whether a human being should live or die is so ... rife with all of life's understanding, experiences, prejudices and passions -- that it inevitably defies the rationality and consistency required by the Constitution...
Whatever talents Mitchell may have as a conciliator, it is too soon to tell whether he can guide the court to new alignments on the most divisive issues coming its way, including gays in the military, the right to die and how to adjust the line between church and state. And after those? For Presidents, the most intractable problem of choosing court nominees is that no one can predict what issues will grip the court in years to come. Abraham Lincoln put five men on the court, all chosen to support his policies during the Civil War. All of them...
...years, smokers and nonsmokers have managed an uneasy truce: Live and let live (or let die). You stay in your section; I'll stay in mine (but don't blow in this direction). Yet that truce is crumbling like a Bosnian cease-fire. In the past few months, a rash of new restrictions, legislation and governmental tough talk has elevated the antismoking campaign to new heights. Before, it was a matter of health warnings, moral persuasion and segregation of the warring parties. Now smoking is in danger of being legislated virtually out of existence -- or at least shoved into...
...nothing has galvanized today's antismoking activists as much as the / Environmental Protection Agency report released a year ago that classified environmental tobacco smoke as a class-A carcinogen and estimated that 3,000 nonsmokers die each year from lung cancer as a result of other people's smoke. The tobacco industry is currently challenging the findings in court, but the report dealt a serious blow to so-called smokers' rights that's still being felt...