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Nitschke is even contemplating moving to Britain permanently. "It's getting very, very uncomfortable in Australia," he says. After he successfully campaigned to make voluntary euthanasia legal in Australia's Northern Territory in July 1996, the law was overturned by Australia's senate eight months later, after four people took their lives. Since then, the government has banned Nitschke's Peaceful Pill handbook, and legislation is currently passing through the parliament that would make it illegal to distribute information about assisted suicide via e-mail and the Internet. Britain's House of Lords is also reviewing legislation that would make...
...that we had early on,” co-captain Nick Smith said. “If we had made a couple of shots earlier on, it would’ve been a different game. We just made too many mistakes on both ends of the field, and they took advantage of them.” Things started off slowly for both teams, but the Tigers struck first on a man-up goal just under five minutes into the game. Determined to keep pace, the Crimson battled back with goals from Gibbons, rookie Terry White, and co-captain Max Motschwiller...
...battled difficult conditions against No. 7 Princeton, Cornell, and Bucknell for the Class of 1975 Cup, the No. 4 lightweight team advanced to the Grand Finals of the Knecht Cup only to finish behind the top-ranked Wisconsin Badgers.With the Class of 1975 Cup on the line, the heavyweights took to New Jersey looking for a win, but Princeton showcased its signature speed and swept both varsity eight races.Despite managing to keep close with the Tigers, the Black and White’s varsity eight came up nearly seven seconds short against the Tigers, who took the race with...
...Harvard men’s lightweight rowers swept Dartmouth and MIT to win the Biglin Bowl, and the heavyweight team took three out of five races from Brown to capture the Stein Cup Saturday morning on the Charles River. The second-ranked lightweight varsity eight never trailed en route to a 12.1 second win over Dartmouth. The Crimson led by a length at the halfway point and continued to stretch the lead for the duration of the course. The win improves the varsity eight to 6-0.The second varsity eight followed suit by getting ahead early and never trailing...
Most of the time there's nobody outside Camp Ashraf to hear the members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a fiercely anti-Tehran group who have been based here for the past two decades. That is, unless you count the Iraqi security forces who took over control of the perimeter of the 19-sq.-mile camp in February from U.S troops. The Americans had protected it since the 2003 invasion. But the Iraqi soldiers, like their government in Baghdad, don't appear keen to listen to the chanting. The MEK should "understand that their days in Iraq are numbered...