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...whole basis of law, which is to keep people humane and civilized. Yet Gilbert was humane, civilized and wrong: a riddle. In the end we want the law intact and Gilbert free, so that society wins on both counts. What the case proves, however, is that society is helpless to do anything for Gilbert, for Emily or for itself. All we can do is recognize a real tragedy when we see one, and wonder, perhaps, if one bright morning 1934 Gilbert read of a mercy killing in the papers, leaned earnestly across the breakfast table and told his new bride...
...November, have left the once irrepressible Schroeder feeble, barely able to speak, weepy and depressed. His fondest hope--to return to his home in Jasper, Ind.--has been repeatedly dashed by setbacks. "We have bounced from emotions of excited, happy and hopeful to frustrated, sad, angry and helpless," says Schroeder's son Mel, 31, an engineer. "It hasn't been the easiest of times." Not for Bill Schroeder, and certainly not for his family...
...impotent. Terrorism demands the capacity to react swiftly and surely. So does the difficult task of defending U.S. interests and countering the spread of surrogate Soviet regimes. Until the Pentagon faces up to the realities of low-intensity conflict, the U.S. will remain a highly visible and too often helpless target. --By Evan Thomas. Reported by Michael Duffy and Bruce van Voorst/Washington
...litany of the hostages, some of whom have been missing in Lebanon for more than a year, is an all-too-familiar evocation of President Carter's Iranian hostage dilemma of six years ago. And Western Europe's uncertainty and helpless fear of terrorism today resembles that of the Carter Administration...
...cheap oldster jokes at their own expense. Their latest show, Road to Nowhere, for instance, is set inside a community center where the group pretends to be elderly workers, singing We've Got to Get Out of This Place by the Animals and Neil Young's Helpless, among other tunes. The message is clear: there are many still-working seniors who don't have the luxury of playing golf and watching their 401(k)s grow. Much of the humor that is a big part of their theatrical approach comes courtesy of Bob Cilman, 51, an accomplished artistic director...