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...journal about assisting a suicide. Meanwhile, retired Michigan pathologist Jack Kevorkian began a string of assisted or supervised deaths that now stands at 46. Three times Michigan authorities charged Kevorkian with murder, and thrice juries cleared him. Oregon voters seemed of similar mind when, in 1994, they passed a referendum allowing assisted suicide, and a nationwide Gallup poll in April showed that a 75% majority favored allowing doctors to end the lives of the terminally ill. Yet several other states have batted down Oregon-like initiatives...
...federal jury in Greensboro, North Carolina, found in Food Lion's favor. This week the jury is expected to determine just how much ABC should be punished, a decision that news organizations around the country are awaiting with trepidation. Journalists see the case as a sort of referendum on the undercover reporting tactics that have become commonplace in an era when there is a different TV newsmagazine show on almost every night of the week--not to mention all the local news shows exposing shady auto mechanics during ratings sweeps...
...across Iraq, the numbers seemed fantastic: More than 90 percent of voters in many Shi'ite and Kurdish provinces were reported to have voted for the proposed constitution in Saturday's referendum. In Anbar, a robustly Sunni region, the numbers were equally high against it. And in the swing provinces of Diyala and Nineveh, the numbers simply looked implausible...
...wild numbers forced the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq to act. On Monday, it announced it would audit all "unusually high" returns in 12 Shi'ite and Kurdish provinces, and disavowed numbers released earlier. The audit would delay the results of the referendum by a few days, the commission said in a statement. "We are doing work according to international standards," said Dr. Farid Iyar, commission spokesman...
...September 2004, Hausmann and MIT economist Roberto Rigobon published a study concluding that the previous month’s Venezuelan referendum, in which Chávez survived a presidential recall, was almost certainly fraudulent. The study cast doubt on a previous election audit conducted by the Carter Center, a human-rights group founded by former President Carter...