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Quincy House Senior Tutor Maria J. Trumpler is trading in academic and disciplinary advising in favor of a less traditional occupation—running a cheese farm in Vermont...
...Supreme Court agreed last month to take up a Bush Administration challenge to the Oregon law. The White House wants to revoke the license of any doctor who writes a lethal prescription, arguing that federal drug laws trump states' rights to regulate medical practice. Meanwhile, legislative committees in Vermont and California will vote this month on whether to adopt Oregon-style statutes. Other states have considered similar laws. If the polls are to be believed, the public is ready to give such measures a close look...
Advocates of assisted suicide in Vermont and California are optimistic. But the legislative history of aid-in-dying measures also gives them cause to be wary. An Oregon-type voter initiative failed by only 2 percentage points in Maine in 2001, and a similar statute was narrowly defeated in Hawaii in 2002. Recent legislation was tabled in Wisconsin, Wyoming and Arizona. But with two Academy Award--winning movies this year featuring themes of assisted suicide--Million Dollar Baby and The Sea Inside--momentum, or at least public awareness, is clearly on the rise...
...don’t ever want to do a towel run with Ted Donato,” says Vermont coach and former Harvard defenseman Kevin Sneddon ’92. “He could do it in about 30 seconds and that involved going up on curbs. For me, being from a small town in Canada, I’d never seen driving like that...
...only goal Vitt gave up towards the end of the season was against Vermont on Feb. 26, when she stopped...