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...Supreme Court has suggested that assisted suicide is a matter for the states and has written that “Throughout the nation, Americans are engaged in an earnest and profound debate about the morality, legality, and practicality of physician assisted suicide. Our holding permits this debate to continue, as it should in a democratic society...
...Japanese. Niall O'Dowd, publisher of the Irish Voice, a weekly based in New York, is writing a book on the hundreds of Irish Americans, many of them brave cops and fire fighters, who died on that late-summer morning. (Irish America's tragedy on Sept. 11 was so profound that three days later, Ireland held a national day of mourning...
...TIME: Why is radical reform vital for France? BLANC: This nation has enormous capacities that are stifled by a bloated state structure. Reforming our administrative and democratic organization would require profound changes, but the results would be rapid and dramatic...
...classic soul song that might have been a Curtis Mayfield cover were it not for the reference to “staying at home and playing video games.” Even the additional live track, “Thickness,” is shot through with a profound sense of sympathy that verges on grief, a stark contrast to the sassy attitude of the other performances. “Thickness” is the emotional high point of the album, setting the harrowing story of a young girl’s sexual exploitation to a lugubrious bassline and mournful...
...polish. I had no purpose in life, and I thought it was all over. I checked myself into an observation ward [in a hospital] for a while because I knew I was suicidal. I wanted to get some help. And I had an epiphany. I saw people who had profound emotional problems. These people were manic-depressives and paranoid schizophrenics. I looked around and said to myself, I don't have any problems. I realized all I was doing was being absurdly self-absorbed and giving in to self-pity, and I wanted to just get out. So I told...