Word: kill
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...unknown resident's actions points to the serious moral and ethical questions of euthanasia. What has upset many doctors is the resident's decision to kill Debbie without attempting to allieviate her pain or without consulting her doctor or family. The American Medical Association's official guidelines say that physicians may withhold life-sustaining treatment under certain circumstances, but should never cause death intentionally. But as Debbie's case shows us, the line between the two has become fuzzy...
Unfortunately for the Democrats, Super Tuesday didn't clear the air for proper VP speculation. It's still hard to tell their vice presidential candidates from their presidential candidates. The Democrats may very well kill themselves sifting the two groups out, but let's indulge ourselves in some of the rational possibilities...
Sicilians speak of a "man of respect," a phrase suggesting, at its darkest reach, a gravitas that can not only hurt but even kill in order to enforce that respect. Gravitas is a phenomenon of power, but the forms and styles of power are various. Dictators are forever strutting the tinhorn's impersonation of gravitas. Brute power is only one of the cruder types, and it is sometimes subdued by other forms: a moral gravitas, for example. Martin Luther King Jr. brought his gravitas to bear against men of power who were morally vacant. Gravitas may be aggression...
...breed of D.C. drug dealer does not always kill his enemies. Consider the case of Patrick Monfiston, 20, who last Christmas Eve was found "badly burned" in a motel room in the northeast sector. "They put him in a bathtub and turned on scalding water," says an agent at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. "As his skin was peeling off, they took turns urinating...
Meanwhile, in Washington the House voted 216 to 208 to kill $30.5 million in humanitarian assistance for the contras. The package, designed by Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright to replace a military aid request that he had helped defeat last month, was voted down by a strange-bedfellows' alliance of liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans. Ronald Reagan, who opposed the Wright proposal as too weak, indicated that he will continue to press for military help...