Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...delivered thn em well. But when he spoke to the press late Friday to announce the arrest of Timothy McVeigh, he strayed from that discipline and turned the encounter into a self-referential exercise. This time, Clinton couldn't resist the temptation to state that federal prosecutors would seek the death penalty; that doing so might strike some listeners as gratuitous no longer seemed to worry...
...potential witnesses. A possible motive: McVeigh was said to be obsessed with the Federal Government's 1993 assault on Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas. At week's end, as the fbi detained another suspect in San Bernardino, California, officials continued their investigation. Attorney General Janet Reno announced authorities would seek the death penalty for whoever is charged with the bombing...
Everyone is obliged to demand a more honest and a more civil discourse. But those who seek to lead bear the largest responsibility. Both the right and the left need to lower their voices. Bill Clinton taught an important lesson last week. While others jumped to condemn foreign terrorism, which only fueled passions, the President, almost alone, refused to rush to judgment. That defined him not only as relevant, but as a leader...
...therefore a kind of guru to artists who seek gnomic "enactments" of pain, are obsessed by splits between private and public identity--including their own feelings of victimization--and treat the body as canvas. Not for nothing does one of Nauman's video pieces feature a bewildered rat in a Plexiglas maze, scuttling about under the bombardment of rock drumming. It's Nauman's idea of the relationship between artist and audience. The artist as hero is long gone from American culture, and the artist as social critic is ineffective, but Nauman, with the example of Dada before...
...suicidesby terminally-ill patients. The Justices, without comment, rejected the retired Michigan pathologist's appeal of a Michigan Supreme Court ruling that the Constitution creates no right to assisted suicide.TIME law reporter Andrea Sachssays the doctor's setback will have minimal impact on the movement, which will continue to seek to expand legal rights in this area: "Dr. Kevorkian has ricocheted in and out of court so much that people now see him as a lone ranger." Kevorkian, who has aided or witnessed 21 suicides since 1990, had argued that the Constitution gives people a right to "end intolerable pain...