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Just as this anxiety and loneliness seemed to take grip of me, I would pass through the walkway between University Hall and Thayer, and there, as I rounded the corner lay Holworthy, and home...
King Canute had a better grip on reality. This nightmare scenario is not a hypothesis; it has been tested in Holland and proved a fact. Holland is the only jurisdiction in the Western world that heretofore permitted physician-assisted suicide. The practice is now widespread (perhaps 2,000 to 3,000 cases a year; the U.S. equivalent would be 40,000 to 60,000) and abused. Indeed, legalization has resulted in so much abuse--not just psychological pressure but a shocking number of cases of out-and-out involuntary euthanasia, inconvenient and defenseless patients simply put to death without their...
...them as inauthentic; that, by inference, most Christians' picture of Christ may be radically misguided. That their Jesus, in fact, "is an imaginative theological construct, into which have been woven traces of that enigmatic sage from Nazareth--traces that cry out for recognition and liberation from the firm grip of those whose faith overpowered their memories...
...result will be a better grip on growth, and a better sense about how it compares in one area or another," she says...
...city that he had been helping bomb only four months ago. "It's certainly the first time that any of the Pale leadership has publicly traveled to government-held Sarajevo since the war began in 1992," reports TIME's Massimo Calabresi. "And though it is probably more of a grip-and-grin meeting, it's still a significant step. Koljevic is thought to be connected to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, so there is at least a speculative link to power there." Koljevic met with Kresimir Zubak, president of the Muslim and Croat federation that the Dayton peace accord says will...