Word: ills
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...voluntary euthanasia would perhaps have advocated her case. At that time, I would have empathized with those who advocate surgeon-assisted suicide. Even today, arguments for ending unbearable suffering do evoke a sympathetic response from me. But even as someone who has seen close-up the pain that terminally ill patients and their relatives experience, I still find myself strongly opposed to voluntary euthanasia in any form...
Last month the United States Supreme Court announced that in its upcoming term it will decide whether Americans who are terminally ill have a right to get help from their doctors and family members to end their lives. This announcement came just a week after Robert Dent, a 66 year-old cancer sufferer, became the first person to die under Australia's Northern Territory's controversial legislation--the first of its kind anywhere in the world--legalizing voluntary euthanasia. In the U.S. and elsewhere around the world, many euthanasia advocates have cheered the Northern Territory law. They hope for similar...
...perennial ill of campus musicals, a singing voice too weak or too sour to carry, doesn't show its face here at all. Andrew Burlinson as Frederic, the Pirate Apprentice, projects with a sweet clarity, and Sarah Cullins as Mabel, his romantic counterpart and the General's daughter, banters back with coy and subtle bravura of her own. And if Adam Smith as the Major-General Stanley is outshined a little vocally, he more than compensates with his bizarre--but somehow nonetheless appropriate--Major-General gyrations...
...Elect Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) served in the Illinois General Assembly. He knocked off a first-term Republican incumbent in the Nov. 5 elections. And he's been to Disneyland...
Returning to my room after my ill-fated trip to Harvard Hall, I assumed that I had made an idiotic mistake. I grabbed the ad off of my bulletin board and searched for any mention of the program's special nature. I had assumed that SEO stood for Student Employment Office (it actually refers to Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, an organization based in New York), and upon re-examination saw no reason to blame myself for the evening's embarrassment...