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That finding fueled the fears of ethicists who believe that legal assisted suicide could become an instrument to meet social or economic goals, even "altruism." For example, people over 65 spend 3 1/2 times as much on health care as younger people. "It would be a terrible burden to put on the disabled, the dying and the weakened elderly, especially at a time when there is enormous pressure to cut medical costs," says Father Richard McCormick, professor of Christian ethics at the University of Notre Dame. "They would constantly ask themselves, 'Should I ask for it, is now the time...
...1800s, Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter), a mute Scottish woman, lands on the isolated New Zealand shore with her chatty young daughter (Anna Paquin) and her precious piano; the crated instrument perches on the bleak beach like an exotic bird, or like a coffin holding the happy life Ada left behind. Her mail-order husband (Sam Neill) trades the piano for land with the "town freak," George Baines (Harvey Keitel), and in another plaintive transaction Baines agrees to sell the piano back to Ada, one key at a time, for increasingly audacious amorous favors. This uncorseted Brontean plot runs the gauntlet...
Young, a second-year student scheduled to graduate this spring, and George Liberatore, the private investor, bought the instrument because they knew the debt was about to be restructured, the indictment said...
...indictment also quotes alleged conversations in November and December of 1990 between Young and Liberatore, who were then business partners, in which they discuss how to convince a Manufacturers trader to sell Liberatore the Colombian debt instrument. Manufacturers eventually sold the instrument to Liberatore at 67.5 percent of its face value...
...news release, New York District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau said that Young and Liberatore earned more than $500,000 from the arrangement. If Manufacturers had held the Colombia debt instrument, it would have made $1 million...