Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burgeoning Iranscam investigations deepened McFarlane's depression. He has testified more fully than anyone else. But, says his lawyer Leonard Garment, "the more information he gave, the more he became an object of scrutiny." Another friend adds that "he is a loyal ((former)) Marine suddenly thrust into the role of John Dean," the Nixon White House Counsel whose Senate testimony fueled the Watergate scandal...
Such thinking played a significant role in the famous 1976 New Jersey Supreme Court case that permitted the Catholic parents of comatose Karen Ann Quinlan to have her respirator removed. The Quinlans' lawyer, Paul Armstrong, also a Catholic, was among the Boston conferees. He has noted that since the Quinlan ruling, many Americans have come to view kidney dialysis, cancer chemotherapy and the use of respirators as treatments that can be halted if they become too burdensome physically, emotionally and financially. When such methods are onerous and have a minimal chance of success, Catholic moral theologians term them "extraordinary," meaning...
...question has dogged Cuomo for months, and in Los Angeles he again deflected it with his usual response: "The big question you have to decide is whether you ought to be President." But the role of Hamlet does not suit him | well. Within the next week or so Cuomo is expected to declare his intentions, and political pros expect him to take the first tentative steps toward running...
...example, the despondent numeral visits a psychoanalyst. "I'm just a nothing," he sobs. Zero added to any other number, he explains, adds nothing; when placed to the right of a decimal point, it even makes a number smaller. The supportive shrink reminds his patient of zero's important role: "What about multiplication? Zero times any number is zero. Think of the power you wield over all the other numbers...
...disease, after the brilliant New York Yankee first baseman whose career and life it cut short, ALS is generally fatal. Among its better-known victims: Actor David Niven and former New York Senator Jacob Javits. Though the cause remains elusive, doctors suspect that genetic susceptibility sometimes plays a role: 5% to 10% of ALS patients have a family history of the disorder. Some researchers consider it to be an autoimmune disease, in which the victim's immune system assaults his own body tissue...