High court hears right-to-die cases: Justices cautious of medical suicide
WASHINGTON - Taking on one of the most important constitutional questions of the decade, the Supreme Court yesterday expressed grave concerns over the implications of declaring that dying patients have a right to a doctor's help in committing suicide.
Searches kick off for top spots
While students are beginning with a clean slate for the new semester, some administrators are continuing unfinished business from last year.
The 15 members of the search advisory committee for the vice president for medical affairs met yesterday afternoon for the first time, officially marking the start of the search for the newly created position.
MSA pres. plans to meet with Clinton
Michigan Student Assembly President Fiona Rose is scheduled to speak with President Clinton and Secretary of Education Richard Reily today in Washington on behalf of financial aid recipients nationwide.
Rose and six other college students plan to discuss the future of financial aid in light of new statistics that indicate a decrease in student loan defaults.
City Council votes to rezone armory into apartments
Continuing a heated debate about the future use of the former National Guard Armory, protesters marched into Ann Arbor City Hall yesterday but failed to prevent City Council from voting to turn the building into an apartment complex.
The City Council approved a plan by local developer Ed Shaffran to rezone and renovate the vacant building at 223 E. Ann St. to make way for new downtown apartments.
Bollinger to start shadowing tomorrow
By the end of this week, the white house at 815 S. University Ave. may no longer be vacant.
President-select Lee Bollinger is expected to arrive in Ann Arbor by Jan. 10, said Walter Harrison, vice president for University relations.
Albright sails through conrmation hearing
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State-designate Madeleine Albright sailed virtually unchallenged through her confirmation hearing yesterday and appeared assured of prompt approval by a friendly Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
From day-old freshmen such as Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) to Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), members saluted Albright as a "role model" and champion of democracy and welcomed her promise to seek bipartisan consensus on foreign policy.
U.S. seeks waiver of diplomat's immunity
Based on the prosecutor's request, the State Department will formally ask the Georgian government to waive the diplomatic immunity of the second highest official in its embassy here, department spokesperson Glyn Davies said last night.
In requesting the waiver in a letter to the State Department, U.S. Attorney Eric Holder Jr. said evidence points to a high rate of speed and possible alcohol use in the downtown Washington accident last Friday night.
Bible exhibit tells long history
"Thou shalt commit adultery."
The University's William Tinker Hollands Memorial Collection does not have a copy of the "Wicked Bible," in which an English printer accidentally printed this erroneous commandment, but the Special Collections Library exhibit "From Papyri to King James: The Transmission of the English Bible" chronicles similar yet often less-profane revisions in the Bible.
Michigan gets new chief justice
Although Conrad Mallett Jr. admits his election to chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court last week is a milestone, he wishes it were not.
Mallett, who has served as a Supreme Court justice since 1992, is the first black person to hold the position of chief justice and the third to sit on the state's highest court.
'U' develops new cancer fighter
Instead of undergoing surgery or coping with the side effects of chemotherapy or radiation, future cancer patients may one day have tumors eliminated in just minutes by high-intensity ultrasound beams.
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Lott prepares for new Congress: Senate leader plans to introduce bills to cut taxes $150 billion
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trent Lott, portraying his Senate as a can-do "island of tranquility" in a stormy capital, says Republicans are readying a 10-bill package for the new Congress that includes $150 billion in tax cuts and a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
GOP shuns disloyal members
WASHINGTON - Newt Gingrich said there would be no retribution, House Republican leaders said there would be no retribution, but Republican Party officials apparently did not get the message.
Republican lawmakers who did not vote to re-elect Gingrich as speaker were told they were not welcome at last night's GOP dinner honoring Republican National Chairperson Haley Barbour.
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