Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ultimately, this film is very much like the band it professes to portray. While respected in its day, Hard Core Logo finds an ill reception from modern audiences as their tour slowly self-destructs. In the same way, it is not difficult to understand how the idea for this film might have seemed interesting and exciting at one point. Most of that has been lost in the process, however, and the audience is left wondering what the point was. Furthermore, we are left confused and alienated by a directing style that alternates between humor and drama. In many parts...
...sanction of the entire House. When so many House areas are filled with the symbols of one particular faith, it carries a very clear message: the entire community is involved in a celebration. Those who don't share in that celebration thereby feel alienated from the community. No ill-intent need lie behind the motivation of those responsible for the decorations, the harm is done nonetheless. This sort of phenomenon is well known to gay rights activists and feminists. It is known as cultural presumption...
...face of overwhelming evidence. Not that an acquittal would overturn the law -- only the legislature can do that. But if Michigan jurors send a signal to state law enforcement that they don't want euthanasia cases prosecuted, Kevorkian -- and anyone else -- would be free to help terminally ill residents end their lives. Even when the TV cameras aren't watching...
...cheered all the way for Jesse Ventura! I do believe I will now register to vote, as I am confident that this is an indication of things to come. I want to be prepared to vote for the first real American who comes along in Illinois. JIM ENGELMAN Champaign, Ill...
...video gave ammunition to both sides in the debate. "This was a very ill man dying a gentle, peaceful death in the time and manner he requested," says Faye Girsh, executive director of the Hemlock Society USA, a group that promotes physician help in dying. "I think we should see more people dying this way." Opponents saw it differently. "I certainly didn't see any compassion," says Ned McGrath, spokesman for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit. "His last moment on earth, and he's left in a room with Jack Kevorkian and a video camera. What a horrible...