Rife with clever wordplay and a dexterous combination of styles, Chuck Berry's first major hit single was a rock 'n' roll revolution in the making. While the lyrics weren't necessarily subversive, Berry's skin color and influential sound were enough to generate a degree of controversy. Mainst...
helping to run the machinery of the death camps after 1941. The story did not end here. The intent to racially cleanse Germany of undesirable racial elements also extended to Sinti and Roma, calledZigeunerby the Germans and known traditionally as "Gypsies." Classified by the Nazis as "...
Jack Kevorkian became the central figure in physician-assisted death in the United States in the 1990s. Many other nations have also been wrestling with this controversy. The Parliament of the Northern Territory of Australia, for example, approved assisted suicide in 1996, but a year later was ...
Thus, the great controversy is narrowed down to the single question -- Is the Constitution a compact between the States? If so, then the right of secession is conceded, even by its most powerful and determined opponents; by the great jurist, as well as by 'the great expounder' (Webster)...
“undetermined” cause of death in this case. Multiple choices at most ME offices: Suicide, accidental, natural, homicide and undetermined. Perhaps “undetermined” was not an answer choice at this MEO. But it requires a level of certainty to classify a death as a homicide; evidence for ...
Now, more scrutiny about the foreclosure process is hitting the banks from state Attorneys General. California AG, Jerry Brown, is demanding JP Morgan Chase show foreclosures in his state are following the law. (California is not one of the 23 states where the banks have stopped the foreclosure...
But even here the denominator is often discredited by controversy over what constitutes nobility and blurred by the inclusion of prolonged suffering— torture, imprisonment, and extreme asceticism— that may not end in death. Originally the cause was invariably religious, or at least articulated in...