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...doses of prescribed medication. In 2007, some 46 people committed suicide in Oregon under the law. Last November Washington voters passed a similar provision that allows patients with six or fewer months to live to self-administer lethal doses of medication. Washington's former governor, Parkinson's sufferer Booth Gardner, stumped for the law, while opponents included Martin Sheen, who starred in television commercials urging voters to shoot down the initiative...
...begin to explore an undergraduate concentration in the dramatic arts and that the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will look into how a graduate Master of Fine Arts programs might be created. In addition, Harvard students will now have free admission to Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art, in addition to the Museum of Fine Arts, which is already free for students. Task Force leader and English Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt said on Friday evening that while he did not expect Task Force recommendations to go forward unhindered by financial troubles...
...when he made the first film, he was a supporting player to his then girlfriend Kate Beckinsale's Selene, a vision in pancake face, blood red lipstick and black leather. Then she went off with the movie's director, Len Wiseman - ouch. Since then, Beckinsale has played Ava Gardner in The Aviator and, more or less, Judith Miller in Nothing But the Truth; Wiseman graduated to directing the very snappy fourth Die Hard movie; and Sheen became an upmarket character star. Now he's top-billed as Lucian the hybrid Lycan...
...butterfly and is addressed to George Hessen, Nabokov’s closest friend. “It was common for Nabokov to draw butterflies in inscribed copies of his books for those close to him,” said Nabokov scholar Professor Leland de la Durantaye, the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English. John W. Wronoski, the owner of Lame Duck, acquired the book from a Soviet emigrate as part of a larger collection of pieces inscribed by Nabokov. “I must have offered to buy the collection 600 times before he sold...
...1950s Cooke's traveling companions were his second wife Jane and their friends, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.) The famous somehow fell into his lap. Cooke was Greta Garbo's unofficial cigarette lighter, though he once said the most beautiful woman he'd ever met was Ava Gardner. They were charmed; he was blessed...