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...Clinton takes the Starr assault well beyond the facts of the case and fits it into a witting effort by radical conservatives to keep power--the "vast right-wing conspiracy," a formulation he clearly supports but is careful not to use. For years Clinton has professed that fighting against impeachment was one of the triumphs of his Administration. He seems to have a dual purpose now: not just to discredit Starr but also to make the war against the ultraconservatives a significant part of his presidential legacy. He wants to be remembered for the Starr investigation...
Jacobs is part of an exciting vanguard--the first wave of cancer patients who are benefiting from a more targeted, molecular-based assault on the disease. Old-fashioned chemotherapy and radiation treatments were blunt weapons that killed healthy cells along with malignant ones; the treatments were far too toxic for most patients to endure. By comparison, the new-generation drugs are precision-guided missiles that zero in on tumors with a minimum of collateral damage. Used in combination with advanced techniques for classifying tumors by their molecular signatures and screening patients by their DNA, the drugs are transforming cancer from...
...part of their lives?" Says a Saudi political analyst: "The way people are talking, it amounts to a no-confidence vote for the government." Al-Qaeda's campaign to overthrow King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud and establish a Taliban-style regime has now become a constant assault. The attacks are targeting Western experts and the oil trade - the twin pillars that have propped up the House of Saud almost since the desert kingdom was founded in 1932. The Saudis are still far from witnessing anything like Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution - "Nothing's getting toppled," says...
...Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, a high school dropout and veteran of jihad in Afghanistan, Somalia, Bosnia and Algeria. "We instruct the jihadi youth to direct their efforts against the Crusaders," he commanded. "Kill them wherever you find them." On May 1, four terrorists carried out an assault in Yanbu on the Red Sea, killing five foreigners. The late May blitz on Khobar was far more devastating. Beginning about 7:30 a.m., four young fanatics shot up the offices of oil-industry firms at two locations in the Persian Gulf coastal city. They murdered the British vice president...
...That was definitely a spike and a cluster in indecent assault and batteries,” Catalano said. “We were concerned; fear [among students] was running very, very high...