Word: miners
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Judge Roger Miner, writing for the Second Circuit, uncomprehendingly admits the reality of the nightmare: "It seems clear that some physicians [in the Netherlands] practice nonvoluntary euthanasia, although it is not legal to do so." Well, why would such things occur in the Netherlands? Are the people there morally inferior to Americans? Are the doctors somehow crueler and more uncaring...
...shoes, pink trunks and, thanks to the mixture of blood and sweat but certainly not tears, a pink shirt that was once white. Fighting on the undercard of the Mike Tyson-Frank Bruno W.B.C. heavyweight title fight in Las Vegas on March 16, Christy Martin, billed as the Coal Miner's Daughter, won a unanimous six-round decision over Deirdre Gogarty, unbilled as the daughter of two Irish dentists...
Martin, 27, really is a coal miner's daughter, the coal miner being John Salters of the tiny town of Mullens, West Virginia. Christy was a catcher in Little League and a good enough player on her high school basketball team to score 50 points in a half. She also played basketball at Concord College in nearby Athens, where she got her education degree in just three years. One night she accepted a dare to enter a local Toughwoman contest--"There's not that much to do in southern West Virginia," she says--and three Toughwoman titles later...
...true: misery loves country. But Loveless has a purity, a disdain for emotional compromise, that sets her above the standard ingratiators. Since her early hits (Jealous Bone, I'm That Kind of Girl), her voice and choice of material have matured; she's grown up in public. Another coal miner's daughter, Patty is a cousin of Loretta Lynn's--like about half of the singing South. But her true musical kin is Tammy Wynette, country's calamity queen. Like her, Patty sings the truth and serves...
...into ''innocent.'' A man who threatens to kill his wife is very likely to do just that. He is neither a pillar of the community nor the victim of a witch-hunt. He is without a doubt a criminally abusive man, and that fact must not be ignored. MOLLY MINER, Evanston, Illinois Via E-mail...