Word: intentionally
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...help a patient die. Until now, explains Leslie Pickering Francis, a professor of law at the University of Utah, "patients who are sophisticated enough to want the aid and physicians who are sympathetic enough to want to give it often do it in such a way that the intent and the knowledge are left deliberately ambiguous." Only a few, like Dr. Jack Kevorkian, have defied this conspiracy of silence...
...America the great moral barrier protecting us from such monstrous God-doctoring is the one separating passive from active euthanasia. Pulling the plug for the dying is permitted. Prescribing death-dealing drugs to those who are quite self-sustaining is not. It is this distinction that the judges are intent on destroying...
...Currier House Committee has certainly been putting in a great deal of effort to maintain a spirited environment. The arrest of William Blankenship '96, social chair of the Committee, on charges of possession of and intent to distribute a variety of drugs only testifies to the lengths to which Currier has gone to foster conducive living...
...will probably return during the national convention in August. But perhaps the feel-good aura of international cooperation during the Olympics will rub off on the candidates. While nations watch who are far poorer than we are, on the brink of civil war or recovering from its aftermath, or intent on building governments from scratch, candidates may be a little embarrassed to point to our own country as miserable...
CHILDREN ACROSS THE COUNTRY MAY one day discover that their first schoolwork assignment has nothing to do with reading, writing or arithmetic. Instead, they will be asked to prove that they are not in the U.S. illegally. That, at least, is the intent of a proposed amendment to the immigration-reform bill that would give states the right to turn away undocumented children from public schools. The measure easily passed the House of Representatives last week after Speaker Newt Gingrich made a rare speech from the floor supporting it. "Offering free, tax-paid goods to illegals has increased the number...