Word: guilts
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...lived in tortured unity for 29 years, they traveled from their native Iran to Singapore for the surgery meant to set them free. The doctors who performed it were devastated. When you lose a patient, particularly when the patient dies at your own hand, the heartbreak mixes with unbearable guilt. The doctors are asking themselves the same question everyone else is asking: Should they have done...
...twins suffered from an error of nature, a mistake in individuation. They were asking for nothing more than the possibility of solitude. To risk everything for this was perfectly rational - indeed, an act of nobility and great courage. Their doctors were assisting heroism, not suicide. They should feel no guilt, only sorrow that victory once again went to nature, in all its cruelty...
...officials say the military tribunals offer important safeguards, like the presumption of innocence and the requirement of proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. But amid a growing outcry over faulty intelligence on weapons of mass destruction, Blair can ill afford to go along with Bush on this matter. In his appearance before Congress, Blair is expected to "speak truth to power," says a U.S. diplomat, if only for the benefit of the folks back home. --By J.F.O. McAllister, with reporting by Viveca Novak
...family life until she starts neglecting her husband and 6-year-old son, Cathal. In a poignant scene, Cathal is unwrapping his birthday presents and holds up a new skateboard to show his mother. When she asks who gave it to him, he replies, "You and Daddy did." Guilt spreads like a shadow across Guerin's face as the consequences hit home. For some, the scene is one step too far. "That was so unfair," says Prendiville. "It just wasn't true. She was totally immersed in Cathal." He remembers how desperately Guerin had wanted another child...
...capital punishment. In January the departing Republican Governor of Illinois, George Ryan, delivered the biggest blow when he commuted the sentences of all 167 people who were to be executed in his state. "Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error," Ryan declared, "error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die." He and others argue that problems like racially motivated prosecutions, coerced confessions and unreliable witnesses have made the system capricious. Such worries may help explain why many states with capital punishment--there are 38 in all--seem to be wavering...