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Though Kevorkian has often played videotapes and given press conferences after helping gravely ill men and women kill themselves, last week's legal confrontation was his most dramatic gesture yet. He had been ordered to stand trial for assisting in the suicide three months ago of a man suffering from...
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York called for huge tax increases, ranging from 11% to 50%, on handgun bullets, to deter their use. He wants to tack his proposal onto the President's health-care bill, saying he cannot imagine the Senate Finance Committee, of which he is chairman...
The $330 million compensation fund will also cover any court cases that Prudential settles after July 1, 1993. That provision grandfathered in a $120 million award that the company two weeks ago agreed to pay in a class-action suit in New Orleans. Since the fund has no ceiling and...
Turning health care over to the market would place the responsibility for provision of medical care where it belongs: with doctors and patients. Doctors would have to provide the best services for the lowest cost possible. Patients would be responsible only for their own medical needs, not for those of...
The main sticking point was habeas corpus, the constitutional provision that allows state prisoners to challenge their convictions in federal courts. Since the restoration of the death penalty in 1976, some defendants have used the habeas rules to extend the appeals process and delay executions for a decade on average...