Word: intending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goin to make an example of Milton Colman!" cried the religious leader on a radio show broadcast from Chicago. "What do [we] intend to do to Mr. Coleman? At this point, no physical harm . . . We're going to punish the traitor and make the traitor beg for forgiveness . . . One day soon we will punish you with death! . . . This is a fitting punishment for such dogs." Coleman's wife, he promised, would "go to hell . . . the same punishment that's due that no-good, filthy traitor." The speaker: Louis Farrakhan, leader of the black Nation of Islam...
Tomas's life is undermined, meanwhile, by an article he wrote on Oedipus. Noting that Oedipus punished himself for a crime he did not commit, Tomas concludes that the political regime of his country, even if it did not intend to commit atrocities, should accept responsibility for what if has wound up doing. This article costs him his job as a surgeon; he descends to being a driver for a collective farm. By this time he is weak enough for Tereza's taste; she is happy with the final condition of her life with...
...call attention to the alarming fact that "medical science is replacing God in deciding when we die," and to encourage discussion of the implications. "We can prolong our lives a few months or a year, but at what price?" Lamm asks. The Governor insists that he did not intend to endorse mercy killing: "In euthanasia, somebody else makes the decision. [ am merely saying people have the right :o die without medical science intervenng." In addition, he notes, the "falling leaves" metaphor was an attempt to paraphrase an article in the American Scholar by University of Chicago Philosopher Leon Kass...
...prelude to the conference, the rump government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel last week did the expected by formally canceling its May 17 security agreement with Israel. But Gemayel's Druze and Muslim opponents in Lebanon will be asking for far more than that in Lausanne. They intend to demand a fundamental restructuring of the Christian-dominated power-sharing arrangement on which Lebanese politics have been based since...
...untamed lead singer of the Rolling Stones: their first child, a daughter; in New York City. Jagger, who has two other daughters, Karis, 13, by American Singer Marsha Hunt, and Jade, 12, by his ex-wife Bianca Jagger, was present in the delivery room but thus far does not intend to marry Hall, apparently fearing that a divorce would cost him millions. Prenuptial agreements, Jagger recently said, "don't stand up in court hardly...