Word: documents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threatening to confiscate flak jackets needed in Bosnia. Customs, according to the memo, had also become concerned about whether four-wheel-drive vehicles were being illegally exported. It added, "The BBC, presumably in their eyes a well-known terrorist group, would be treated like any other potential mercenary." The document concluded with the sarcastic assertion that should any staffer get "shot dead by some scumbag in Bosnia," the BBC would definitely complain...
...CONSTITUTION: A relic not worth defending. The 150 legislators who barricaded themselves in Moscow's White House last week claimed to be fighting against "Yeltsin's anticonstitutional regime." But the Constitution dates back to 1978 and was conceived when "parliament" was little more than a rubber stamp. The document fails to distinguish between the executive and legislative branches of government, offers no coherent foundation for lawmaking and has been amended over 300 times. The reason for parliament's loyalty to it: thanks to its inherent ambiguities, the Constitution serves as an ideal instrument for hamstringing Yeltsin...
...promised to keep looking, and said she would let the Crimson know when she found the document. We're still waiting...
...there's anything to learn from Richard Linklater's new movie "Dazed and Confused," that's what it is. But it seems like his point is that there isn't really anything to learn, that you shouldn't try to "document" a generation. The low-key and essentially plotless movie, although extremely well-made and entertaining, resists signification, and even review. It doesn't want to be interpreted as anything more than what it is: a series of denotative snapshots, rather than a coherent narrative, of some kids on the last day of high school...
Choice in Dying, the nation's largest distributor of living wills, sent out 400,000 forms last year. But no one knows how many living wills have actually been signed or executed, and doctors are often reluctant to act even when the document is in order, lest a relative sue. "And even if the family bows to the patient's wishes as expressed in the will, it often takes days or weeks to get agreement," says Stephen Sullivan, a physician on the clinical faculty at Stanford University Hospital, "during which time costs continue to rise...