Word: kevorkians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Michigan judge ordered right-to-die advocate Jack Kevorkian to stand trial for assisting in the 1991 suicides of two chronically ill women; however, he cannot be tried for murder, the judge ruled, because it cannot be proved that Kevorkian actually started up the devices that killed the women. (The state supreme court ruled last year that assisting suicide could be a common-law crime...
...list was down 1.10 to 558.11. Buffeted by heavy selling of technology stocks, the Nasdaq composite index fell 11.58 to 1,019.70. Gold was down 30 cents to $384.25.Photographs: Simpson pool photo by Rick Meyer/REUTERS Crash from RTV/REUTERS Jerusalem by Jim Hollander/REUTERS Persian Gulf soldier by Hayne Palmour/AP Kevorkian by Steve Liss for TIME Dole by Scott Troyanos/AP Chain gang by Christopher Bell/Huntsville Times-AP Gates by Robert Sorbo/AP
...Supreme Court refused Dr. Jack Kevorkian's last-ditch plea to avoid prosecution forassisting two suicides and three attempted suicidesby terminally-ill patients. The Justices, without comment, rejected the retired Michigan pathologist's appeal of a Michigan Supreme Court ruling that the Constitution creates no right to assisted suicide.TIME law reporter Andrea Sachssays the doctor's setback will have minimal impact on the movement, which will continue to seek to expand legal rights in this area: "Dr. Kevorkian has ricocheted in and out of court so much that people now see him as a lone ranger." Kevorkian, who has aided...
...seat in the House as a duck blind from which to take potshots at the Administration. His weapon of choice is the rhetorical blunderbuss. The Clinton presidency is not merely flawed; it is a "train wreck." The health plan was not simply misguided; it amounted to a "Dr. Kevorkian prescription." And the Congressional Budget Office is not just a poor source of economic data; basing conclusions on its figures is "like relying on the Flintstones for an understanding of the Stone...
...second biggest story from the weekend was the football team's 35-27 comeback win over Colgate. OK, it was only Colgate, but the nature of the win merited attention: two fourth-quarter touchdowns by a quarterback whose last name would suggest a blood relationship to Jack Kevorkian is no mean accomplishment...