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The Gardner-Webb Theater Department's newest original work, "Gloria Dei," opens tonight. GWU Director of Theater Scot Lahaie wrote the script after following the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case, which climaxed with her death in March 2005.
Schiavo suffered irreparable brain damage from oxygen deprivation after collapsing from heart failure in 1990. In 1998, her husband and parents began a protracted legal battle about removing her from life support.
In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that her husband, Michael, had the right to withdraw it.
"They said she didn't feel a thing, but she moaned and groaned the entire time." Lahaie said. "She just needed food and water. She wasn't on a life monitor or anything."................
Theater department premieres 'Gloria Dei' tonight
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Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers.
A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, in his offices and aboard a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity..........
For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk [McCain had an affair?]
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