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...walkers: Usually seen traveling in groups, these organisms like to occupy all of the space alloted by Cambridge's narrow paths. Passing a gaggle of these could be disastrous: an ill-timed swing of a one-pound weight or walkman could send you reeling either into the muddy banks of the Charles or in the middle of oncoming traffic. Instead, charge through the middle of the pack, paying no attention to their resulting bellows...
...bill that would outlaw the use of federally controlled drugs in physician-assisted suicide. The bill, sponsored by Henry Hyde, is a pointed rebuke to Oregon voters, who passed the Death With Dignity Act in 1997, permitting doctors to prescribe (but not administer) lethal levels of painkillers to terminally ill, mentally competent patients who are within six months of dying. Under a law modeled on Hyde's bill, doctors convicted of aiding in a suicide could spend at least 20 years in jail...
Aside from her views on gun control, though, Dole's platform was nearly indistinguishable from Bush's, and just as ill-defined. Dole avoided making specific proposals, instead taking such gutsy stances as support for school discipline...
Breakfast of Champions is none of these books. The movie was doomed from the beginning. This ill-conceived, ill-fated and horrendously-executed adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s cult classic novel of the same name follows the fleeting sanity of Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis), the owner of a used-car dealership and the most popular guy in Midland City. The film also follows Kilgore Trout (Albert Finney), a slightly kooky science-fiction writer on his way to Midland City to attend the town's Fine Arts Festival as the guest of honor. When the divergent paths of these...
Among other things it is important to keep in mind that the Treaty of Versailles was, put simply, a historical disaster. The League of Nations covenant was only one of its many ill-conceived provisions: while noble in theory, the League was so poorly implemented that even had the United States joined, it is unclear whether anything substantive would have come...