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...talking about little else. In a decision that took legal scholars and medical ethicists by surprise last week, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a New York State law that prohibited physicians from helping their patients die. It's already legal for doctors to withhold or withdraw treatment at a patient's request. Now, as long as a patient is in the final stages of a terminal disease, mentally competent and able to take a lethal dose of medicine on his or her own, the state can't bar a doctor from prescribing that dose...
WASHINGTON: Multimillionaire publisher Steve Forbes, champion of the flat tax, will withdraw from the G.O.P presidential campaign Thursday. Campaign manager Bill Dal Col confirmed that Forbes and his family would make the announcement in a 1 p.m. news conference. Forbes spent about $25 million in his ill-fated bid for the White House, but received much attention for his proposals. After winning only three delegates in Tuesday's seven primaries, a showing Forbes called "very disappointing," the candidate said he needed a win in one of the Midwestern states to continue fighting. TIME correspondent John F. Dickerson, traveling with...
...both of the remaining candidates." House Speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman think that time has already come. Whitman, a longtime friend of Forbes, said his flat-tax plan would have a better chance of being a part of the GOP platform if Forbes would withdraw from the race. Gingrich said Buchanan is only hurting himself be remaining in the race. "The longer Pat campaigns, the less effect he's going to have. He's made his point. People understand his message. Now it's time to be part of the team." For their part, Buchanan...
...meeting last week between Gingrich and a group of House Republicans, Indiana Representative Mark Souder urged the Speaker to consider some measures that aren't found in the texts of party orthodoxy. Last year, for instance, Republicans in Congress backed an effort to make it easier for employers to withdraw excess money from employee pension funds. Souder argued for a gesture in the opposite direction: making pensions portable, so that a worker who has been laid off can take his pension with him. Gingrich gave back "his kind of tilted-chin, inquisitive look," says Souder. To anyone familiar with...
...York has pushed him through and put him at the top of the heap. Our opponent now is Bill Clinton," said D'Amato, who asked the other candidates to withdraw from the race...