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Dr. Jack Kevorkian has opened an exhibit of his paintings.
The prosecutor's spin: Kevorkian forced the issue by taking the tape to CBS.
The shallow analysis: The case was open and shut, since Kevorkian taped the incident (in which he administered a lethal injection to a terminally ill man, with the man's consent) and had the tape aired on 60 Minutes . The sophisticated analysis: Kevorkian tried to make the trial a political debate over assisted suicide, but the judge and jury refused to go along.
The clever liberal spin: His conviction shows that if people can't get assisted suicide legally, they'll turn to murderers such as Kevorkian.
To kevork someone is to assist him in the commission of suicide--an eponym derived proximately, of course, from the work of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, but made possible by the prior success of the rhyming verb to bork (from the name Robert Bork, and meaning to use every means possible to sabotage a nominee to high office).