Word: michigans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...residency] meant there was a lot of demystifying of 'Cliffies as a group," says Barry M. Wright '71, now a psychologist in Grand Ledge, Michigan. "Before, they were seen as very rich, very bright and not very attractive. In reality, it was much complex than that...
...Hoopla, which is to say he is never completely out of the news these days, what with going to court or coming from court or explaining what happened in court. "Thank God for the jury system," said his lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, after the Doc's latest trial in Michigan, and well he might. Simply by punching a couple of jury-pleasing buttons, the team of Kevorkian and Fieger should be able to keep their show on the boards and out of jail forever, until the Law stops puffing after them and the networks pull the plug...
...only recognize laws passed by a legislature, not made up by courts," Kevorkian said in Michigan, thus pushing button No. 1, distrust of the legal system. Since a large body of common law evolved in court, this is tantamount to throwing out half the book before the show even begins. Button No. 2 and the clincher at the Michigan trial was a simple video of Kevorkian's latest subjects begging to be allowed to die. Just reading their words into the record might not have done the trick, and screams of pain could have been counterproductive. But the sight...
ACQUITTED. DR. JACK KEVORKIAN, 67, the right-to-die activist; of common-law assisted-suicide charges; in Pontiac, Michigan. The jury's not-guilty verdicts marked prosecutors' third failure to convict "Dr. Death...
...University will not fund the project directly, but the administration has given Kirshner permission to seek donors to raise the $13.7 million. The money will give Harvard a one-fifth share in the Magellan project, collaborating with the University of Arizona, MIT and the University of Michigan...