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...infamous Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Instead, a physician can prescribe a lethal dose of medication to a terminally ill patient who then decides if and when to use it. Self-administration helps ensure that the patient is acting voluntarily. Other restrictions demand that the patient’s request for lethal medication be in writing and signed before two witnesses. Two physicians have to confirm that the patient suffers from “an incurable and irreversible disease that has been medically confirmed and will, within reasonable medical judgment, produce death within six months...
...former host of MTV programs such as “Hot Zone” and “Total Request Live,” Ananda Lewis has broken away from pop music and settled down in syndication. The self-titled talk show centers around compassion, as Lewis proclaims in her commercials: “I’ve always thought that if we could all walk in each other’s shoes for just one day, then we might have a little more empathy for each other...
...Exchange Commission (SEC) was asked to investigate whether Enron’s directors should be removed from the boards of other public companies. There’s no word on whether the SEC will comply, or how long such an investigation might take. But as the SEC considers the request, Harvard should embark on its own investigation—whether Harvard Corporation member Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65, an Enron director since 1985, should remain on the University’s highest governing body...
...district attorney’s office would not comment on plans to request bail...
...finally able to convict Navy captain and military journalist Grigory Pasko on treason charges. Pasko had leaked information to the press about nuclear-waste dumping in the Russian far east. Putin denied any involvement in the case: it was, he said, a "purely juridical affair" and invited Pasko to request a pardon. This was easier said than done, as a few days after the Pasko verdict the President abolished his pardons commission, founded by Mikhail Gorbachev and composed of unreconstructed civil libertarians hopelessly out of touch with the Putin...