Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BENJAMIN WILL NEVER FORGET the first time he helped a patient commit suicide. It was more than a quarter-century ago. An elderly couple came to his office, husband and wife, both terminally ill and in terrible agony with cancer. "They told me they would like a supply of pills on hand just in case," recalls the 71-year-old New York City internist. The law forbade him to agree; his conscience dictated otherwise. In the end, his conscience won, but Benjamin had to wrestle with this ethical dilemma alone. At the time, doctors didn't even whisper among themselves...
...lawsuits because they will suddenly be open to scrutiny by family members and attorneys. If health professionals are going to be held accountable, says Dr. Howard Grossman, one of the three doctors who successfully challenged the New York law, "there must be clear guidelines of what constitutes a terminally ill patient...
...points to the failure of the council's resolution on the ROTC commissioning ceremony as an example of ill-informed legislation. He says no one who was knowledgeable about the history of the administration's previous position on the ceremony was consulted on the proposal...
...Lorin De Young, referring to Unabomber suspect Theodore J. Kaczynski '62. They were both members of the Evergreen Park (Ill.) High School band...
Even well-informed Russians are reduced to theorizing about the core beliefs of Zyuganov's followers because they come in so many shapes and sizes. Sitting in the seats the communists already hold in parliament are such ill-matched party comrades as General Albert Makashov, who led the armed assault on Moscow's main television center during the abortive coup of October 1993; the so-called red millionaire Vladimir Semago, who is reported to own a string of city casinos; and Yuri Maslyukov, the last head of the Soviet State Planning Commission and a candidate member of Gorbachev's Politburo...