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...order in her medical files and ordering medical staff to deny her antibiotics for a developing and potentially fatal infection. He admitted in a deposition that he intended for her to die from the infection. Furthermore, he has refused her treatment in appropriate medical facilities. While Terri Schiavo has lain suffering in a hospital bed, Michael Schiavo has carried on with his life, living with a woman with whom he has several children. He refuses to divorce Terri, which would force him to surrender his legal authority over her. Ironically, the money he has used to pay his lawyers, including...
Last year, the tandem of Laine and Adjah took first and second, respectively, for the Crimson at Heptagonals, and look to be poised to repeat after their performances this Saturday. Looking beyond the league, the NCAA provisional mark is 15.50 meters—which both Lain and Adjah are fast approaching...
...disappeared. Jane Schaberg, an iconoclastic feminist critic at the University of Detroit Mercy, has long maintained that parts of Luke's introduction to the topic echo the beginning of an Old Testament passage on rape ("If there be a virgin betrothed to a man, and if another ... should have lain with her"), suggesting violation as the cause of Mary's pregnancy. The Holy Spirit, in Schaberg's version, transmutes a ritually taboo pregnancy into an occasion of glory and the birth of the Holy Child...
...ANNOUNCED. The permanent burial of CHIANG KAI-SHEK, former Kuomintang leader and Taiwan's first President; in Taipei. Chiang's body will be transferred from the temporary grave where it has lain since his death in 1975 to a permanent site in a military cemetery outside Taipei in early 2005. Interred alongside him will be his son and presidential successor CHIANG CHING-KUO, who died in 1988. Both men had asked to be buried in mainland China if the Nationalists ever wrested control of the country from the Communist Party...
...culture. His great treatise on his nation's history, The Discovery of India, written when he was put in jail by the British, describes the mind-boggling diversity of religions, cultures, kingdoms and empires that have coexisted in India as facets of a single timeless civilization that had lain dormant under British rule but was about to awaken with terrific force. His ability to convey this mystical vision of a great, united, democratic India to his poor countrymen gave him a sway over their loyalties that no Prime Minister has duplicated: they swept him into power three times. Although often...