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Nightmarish 'Rusalka' opera divides conservative Salzburg: SALZBURG, Austria AFP — A nightmarishly dark new production of Antonin Dvorak's fairytale opera "Rusalka" by prize-winning directors Sergio Morabito and Jossi Wieler divided the audience at its first-ever staging Sunday at the Salzburg Festival. Morabito and Wieler were loudly booed by the ultra-conservative audience when they took their...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, suicide; Research articles 2008-08-19
Universities seeking ways to avert campus violence: A year after a mentally ill student at Virginia Tech preceded his suicide with a shooting spree that killed 32 people, universities nationwide are still scrambling to figure out how to identify and disarm their own potential ticking time-bombs. Administrators from all of Utah's major colleges gathered Tuesday...; Tags: suicide, violence, Virginia Tech; Research articles 2008-08-06
Contra Costa Times July 10 letters: The city of Concord is playing the shell game again, hoping that if it maneuvers things just the right way it can get what it wants at the expense of the rest of us. In November 2006, the City Council wanted to allow the Navy to sell the...; Tags: NASA, suicide; Research articles 2008-07-10
Israel investigates security scare at Sarkozy departure: JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli authorities on Wednesday were investigating the apparent suicide death of a policeman which stirred a security scare during French President Nicolas Sarkozy's departure ceremony. A police spokesman confirmed an investigation had been launched into the death of Raed Ranen, 32, who seemingly shot himself while...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, ceremony, Israel, lady, president, SECURITY, suicide; Research articles 2008-06-25
Easeful Death: Is There a Case for Assisted Dying?: Warnock, Mary & Elisabeth Macdonald. Easeful Death: Is There a Case for Assisted Dying? New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2008; 800-451-7556. In the British Parliament there were three attempts in 2003, 2004, and 2005, to legalize assisted death for those who request it and who are terminally ill....; Tags: Leadership, suicide, University of Oxford; Research articles 2008-06-22

US jury convicts three of plotting to kill troops in Iraq: WASHINGTON AFP — A federal jury in Ohio convicted two American citizens and a Lebanese man Friday of plotting to attack US troops in Iraq, the US Justice Department said. Mohammad Zaki Amawi, 28, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, 45, and Wassim Mazloum, 27, were found guilty of conspiracy to kill...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Iraq, Ohio, suicide, training; Research articles 2008-06-13
Teens in London protest fave band's 'suicide' label: LONDON AFP — Around 100 teenagers marched on the offices of a widely-read British tabloid Saturday to protest at its suggestion that their favourite emo band, My Chemical Romance, encouraged suicide. They objected to Daily Mail's description of the US group as a "suicide cult band" after a 13-year-old...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, London, music, suicide; Research articles 2008-05-31
Guantanamo detainee attempted suicide : laywer: WASHINGTON AFP — A Saudi held in Guantanamo Bay military jail and often described as the 20th hijacker in the September 11 attacks attempted to commit suicide in April, his lawyer said Tuesday. Mohammed al-Qahtani, who was facing the death penalty, "felt the Saudi government has thoroughly abandoned him...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, attack, lawyer, Pentagon, suicide; Research articles 2008-05-20
Is there a duty? Limiting college and university liability for student suicide.: This Note argues that nonclinician administrators employed by institutions of higher education do not have a special relationship with their students such that they have a duty to act with reasonable care to prevent a foreseeable student suicide. Courts that have in recent years ruled to...; Tags: administrator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Restatement, suicide; Research articles 2008-05-01
Senator: VA lowballed suicide figures: WASHINGTON -- The Department of Veterans Affairs has lied about the number of veterans who have attempted suicide, Sen. Patty Murray said Wednesday, citing internal e-mails that put the number at 12,000 a year while the department was publicly saying it was fewer than 800. "The suicide...; Tags: Afghanistan, Benefits, E-mail, HEALTHCARE, Iraq, senator, SOFTWARE, suicide, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2008-04-24
Feds must release file on Utah lawyer's sibling: A federal judge has ordered attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over a report on the death of a Salt Lake attorney's brother by May 1 or face contempt of court action. During a hearing Thursday, U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart noted that the Denver-based...; Tags: attorney, Government, SOFTWARE, suicide, U.S. Department of Justice; Research articles 2008-04-11
Suicide truck bomb kills seven in northern Iraq: BAGHDAD AFP — At least seven civilians were killed in an attack by a suicide truck bomber on an Iraqi army checkpoint near the northern city of Mosul, an Iraqi military official said on Thursday. The attack took place late on Wednesday near Adayaa, 25 kilometres (15 miles) southwest...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, attack, Baghdad, civilian, Iraq, SECURITY, suicide; Research articles 2008-04-03
Russian doomsday sect leader attempts suicide: report: NIKOLSKOYE, Russia AFP — The leader of a Russian doomsday sect that barricaded itself in a cave to wait for the Apocalypse has attempted to commit suicide, Russian media reported on Thursday, citing an official. The incident came as expectations grew that the last 11 members of the Orthodox...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, collapse, HEALTHCARE, leader, Leadership, Russia, suicide; Research articles 2008-04-02
Bad boy Vandenbroucke in further hot water: BRUSSELS AFP — Troubled Belgian cyclist Frank Vandenbroucke is set to be quizzed by the Ypres justice department in the coming days over whether he bought cocaine - if found guilty it can carry a custodial sentence. The 33-year-old who looked set for a glorious career when he won...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Brussels, CAREER, suicide; Research articles 2008-04-02
"Military Psychiatric Screening Still Lags," by Matthew Kauffman and Lisa Chedekel, Hortford Courant, March 9, 2008: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of the greatest stains on the record of the Bush administration is its neglect of veterans returning home from Iraq. But for the past two years, Matthew Kauffman and Lisa Chedekel of the Hartford Courant have been investigating a lesser-known disgrace: the numerous American soldiers who...; Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Pentagon, SOFTWARE, suicide, troop, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2008-04-01
Suicide vest now weapon of choice for Qaeda in Iraq: US: BAGHDAD AFP — The explosive vest has become the weapon of choice for Al-Qaeda in Iraq, with most jihadists nowadays wearing the lethal garment and the number of suicide attacks rising, the US military said Sunday. "There has been an increase over time in the use of suicide vest...; Tags: Al-Qaeda, Baghdad, FINANCE, Iraq, suicide; Research articles 2008-03-16
Assisted suicide 'Dr. Death' to run for US Congress: CHICAGO AFP — Assisted-suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, whose controversial tactics earned him the nickname Doctor Death, plans to run for the US Congress. "We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington," Kevorkian said when announcing his bid to his hometown newspaper in Michigan, the Oakland...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, Michigan, patient, physician, suicide, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2008-03-12
Suicides top war and murder but little being done: expert: MONTEVIDEO AFP — While death from war, terrorism and homicide crowd the headlines, at more than a million deaths per year suicide outstrips them all, but gets scant attention, an expert warned Wednesday. The president of the International Association for Suicide Prevention IASP, Brian Mishara, said with global suicide...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Government, suicide; Research articles 2008-03-05
New Afghan suicide blast kills 37: governor: SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan AFP — A Taliban suicide car bomb aimed at Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan killed 37 civilians Monday, a day after another suicide blast left 100 dead in the country's deadliest such attack. NATO's International Security Assistance Force said three of its soldiers were also wounded in...; Tags: Afghanistan, Agence France-Presse, attack, civilian, Governor, SECURITY, soldier, suicide, troop; Research articles 2008-02-18
'Ballast' brings emotional weight to Berlin film fest: BERLIN AFP — An uncompromising drama starring residents of the Mississippi Delta who had never acted before closed the competition Friday in this year's Berlin Film Festival. A stylistically austere film, using ambient noise for the soundtrack, "Ballast" was feted at the Sundance Film Festival, where it garnered a...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Berlin, Collaboration, Groupware, Mississippi, SOFTWARE, suicide; Research articles 2008-02-15