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...action is fast, furious and decidedly funky. Uniforms are not required, but style is vital, and the available styles are great. You can talk about it in resonant slang whose references to half pipes and acid drops, crackin' Ollies and catchin' air can be as arcane as a Rosicrucian oath. You can do it in the country or city, by a beach or across some asphalt. It's risky but not all that dangerous. And the cops don't like it. Perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Irresistible Lure Of Grabbing Air | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...question of whether to end life should not have been dealt with in the hasty way that Debbie's resident did. A doctor's first priority (remember the Hippocratic oath) is always to save life--the problem is in defining what life is and whether a patient has any choice in ending it. The AMA must take a stand and establish a clear definition of life, and under what circumstances a physician can withhold life-prolonging treatment. Unless such guidelines are laid down, a tragic occurrence such as Debbie's induced death may again occur through the efforts of other...

Author: By Suk Han, | Title: Life-and-Death Dilemma | 3/16/1988 | See Source »

...Gardner said Walsh took the unusual step of requesting that CTU members testify under oath at the hearing...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: Tenant Group May Sue Walsh | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

Blandon, testifying under oath for a second day, also repeated his assertion that the CIA regularly sent Noriega reports on the political positions and personal lives of some U.S. senators, including Sens. Jesse Helms (R.N.C.) and Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noriega Provided Training For Contras | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

...Staff Michael K. Deaver stood stiffly beside his lawyer in a federal courtroom in Washington last week, expecting the worst. His lawyers, in a long-shot gamble, had presented no evidence to counter the assertion by Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. that Deaver had repeatedly lied under oath about his lucrative lobbying business. When the jury returned guilty verdicts on three of five counts, canny Defense Counsel Jack Miller manfully shouldered the blame: "We didn't put on a defense because we didn't think we had to. The jury verdict suggests I may have made a mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Price of Friendship | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

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