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...DIED. JACK NANCE, 53, actor, who starred in David Lynch cult classics, including the movie Eraserhead and the TV series Twin Peaks. Nance was found dead in his home in South Pasadena, California, a day after being hit on the head during a fight at a doughnut shop...
...moving toward center stage at least since 1990, when the court, in Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health, established a patient's right to be taken off life support. In 1991, Quill, a New York physician, wrote in a medical journal about assisting a suicide. Meanwhile, retired Michigan pathologist Jack Kevorkian began a string of assisted or supervised deaths that now stands at 46. Three times Michigan authorities charged Kevorkian with murder, and thrice juries cleared him. Oregon voters seemed of similar mind when, in 1994, they passed a referendum allowing assisted suicide, and a nationwide Gallup poll in April...
Here's the most eclectic cast in movie history--Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, Gerard Depardieu, John Gielgud, Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, John Mills, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet and the Duke of Marlborough, to name but a dozen--in the second longest film released by a major studio (after Cleopatra). If Kenneth Branagh doesn't win an Oscar for his four-hour, uncut Hamlet, he should at least cop a Chutzpah Award...
...compared with the 316, for example, who include “Family Guy,” or the 321 who list “drinking” as a personal hobby. It’s hard to believe that seven-card-stud could beat out Stewie Griffin and Captain Jack (excuse me, did someone just say stud?). But poker doesn’t only have fans on campus. It has also merited a weekly sports column in the New York Times, spawned a celebrity showdown on Bravo—which featured the likes of Oksana Baiul and Martin Sheen?...
...recognize any union in which over 50 percent of the University workers submit union endorsement cards. As an alternative to secret balloting, card check neutrality may allow greater anonymity because workers do not vote for unions in public forums but rather submit union endorsement cards as a coalition, explained Jack Mahoney, a Georgetown student labor activist, at the meeting. “Secret ballot box elections are commonly corrupt,” said Mahoney. “But by far card check is the most simple and democratic process.” —Staff writer Candice N. Plotkin...