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Despite actor Martin Sheen's best efforts imploring voters in television ads to vote against the "Death with Dignity" act in the days leading up the Nov. 4 election, the measure, referred to by opponents as "assisted suicide," was passed with more than 50% of the vote in Washington state on Tuesday. The approval makes Washington the second state in the U.S., after Oregon, to legalize physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. The law permits individuals who have been given less than six months to live by medical professionals to request - and self-administer - a lethal dose of medicine...
...creative prime-mover: “I had a dream, no longer to be free / I only want to see four walls made of concrete / Six by six enclosed, soon we’re on video.” All the while, there’s an almost whimsical sheen to each song that conceals troubling realizations—like that above—in delicate, beautiful, and strangely ambivalent sound. Three songs so much as hint at the “ambient” past of the band’s prior work—”Microcastle...
...single focus on overturning Roe, they argue, ignores the progress that could be made in lowering the abortion rate through changes in economic policies and by reforming adoption laws. Most recently, two high-profile Obama supporters - former Reagan Justice Department official Douglas Kmiec and actor Martin Sheen - have filmed a series of short videos making this case that are being disseminated by the Democratic PAC Matthew...
...hands, I noticed, were extraordinarily soft. The nails on his fingers were battered and clipped short?all but the pinkie, which had been painted with a delicate sheen of polish...
...posted Oct. 8, Paris gets tips from the greatest Fake President of our time, Jed Bartlet - better known to those of us who don't obsessively watch West Wing DVDs as actor Martin Sheen. The BFFs share a quiet moment at the kitchen table as a party rages elsewhere in Paris' mansion. Wearing what appears to be a "transvestite Paris" Halloween costume, Hilton asks Sheen for help crafting her "FoPo" (foreign policy, silly) and economic platforms. Citing the current global economic crisis as "the biggest Depression since The Notebook," she gives a stiff, rehearsed stance on what should be done...