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Kevorkian did not have to go to jail at all; he could have put up a $2,000 bond payment and walked out of court. In fact, anyone can post the money and secure his release, but his lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, urged supporters not to do so. It was typical of Kevorkian's defiant, publicity-conscious campaign that he chose a cell and a hunger strike. His objective is to attract attention and change minds. He argues that Michigan's law against assisted suicides, which was enacted specifically to halt his activities, is "immoral" and must be struck down...
...couldn't resist a 20-minute harangue in the House of Commons. As a stony-faced Prime Minister John Major listened, Lamont charged that without more clearly defined goals, his party's government "will not survive and will not deserve to survive." The last time an ex-Exchequer Chancellor (Geoffrey Howe) attacked the boss (Margaret Thatcher), the government did indeed fall...
That would be a gesture familiar to Dr. Kevorkian, who has made defiance of the law a passion second only to suicide. "When the law itself is intrinsically immoral," says Kevorkian's irrepressible mouthpiece, lawyer Geoffrey Fieger, "there is a greater duty to violate the law." Yet this time around Kevorkian merely tiptoed past it. Fieger says the doctor isn't taking any credit for helping a desperate man die. He just wanted to watch...
...problem [that Vincent was there]. If it had been a formal interview, it may have been uncomfortable," Geoffrey Kerchner '93 said...
...friend to steal high school transcript forms, wrote glowing reference letters and actually succeeded in being admitted to the prestigious Hill School in Pennsylvania. Years after he and his brother had got to know and love each other again, he admitted the scam to the somewhat more proper Geoffrey, who, profoundly shocked and sure he was seeing a reincarnation of their calamitous dad, said in groaning despair, "Oh, Toby...